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INFO 230 - Argumentation and Information Literacy for Sustainability Topics

1. Identify, analyze, and evaluate inductive and deductive arguments, including their fallacies, about the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, including how human communities interact with and are affected by various threats to the environment. 
2. Construct arguments to support and/or criticize potential solutions, from an individual,  community, and global context, for sustainability and environmental justice problems, particularly those affecting vulnerable communities. 
3. Develop  search strategies to find and evaluate sources of evidence for use in supporting arguments, from diverse perspectives, understanding the power dynamics involved in the construction and dissemination of knowledge and information. 
4. Develop outlining, drafting , revising, and editing phases  of writing  cohesive and coherent arguments on sustainability and environmental justice topics, incorporating an awareness of discipline specific terminologies and audience.

1. Identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments.
2. Logically construct arguments to support and refute claims using evidence.
3. Reason inductively and deductively.
4. Distinguish matters of fact from judgments, opinions, and/or fallacies.

1. Write for at least two different audiences (e.g. academic, general, and/or professional).
2. Engage in writing for specific purposes (e.g. critical thinking, analytical writing, informal writing, and/or research).
3. Apply critical thinking and logical reasoning in the development and organization of ideas in written texts.
4. Consider multiple perspectives using primary and/or secondary sources, and when appropriate, incorporate key disciplinary concepts when presenting ideas in writing.
5. Revise writing with critical feedback provided by the instructor at important junctures throughout the semester in order to improve development, clarity, coherence, and correctness.
    

1. Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
2. Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
3. Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.