How will Meredith College accomplish its goal of improving students’ critical thinking skills?
The Meredith College PRISM Experience seeks to improve students’ critical thinking skills throughout their four-years at Meredith. A discipline-focused freshmen seminar, followed by infusing critical thinking tools and strategies into existing courses and experiences, will provide multiple opportunities for reflection, intellectual engagement and action. Thinking about … Starting fall semester 2010, freshmen entering Meredith College may participate in one of several discipline-based seminars. Students will begin to develop essential critical thinking skills within a course that encourages them to think about a specific topic or issue. Students will also reflect on their own thinking and assess their development. The freshmen seminar provides a foundation of critical thinking skills. Thinking within … As students move into mid- or upper-level courses in their major, they will expand their critical thinking skills within their chosen discipline. Students will learn to apply critical thi
