Have you ever come across an argument and noticed that there is something amiss with the line of reasoning presented? We encounter faulty arguments online, in conversation, and when reasoning with ourselves as well. Sometimes people take the wrong route to drawing a conclusion, or their analysis reflects a bias, instead of sound reasoning. Intuitively, one may know what is wrong with an argument but without the terminology to point out what’s incorrect, a critique is impossible. This course will provide students with techniques and strategies to differentiate between arguments that one should accept and those that one should reject. Besides focusing on how to identify good and bad reasoning, this course will equip students with the ability to make sound arguments in a wide variety of academic and nonacademic contexts. Students will practice the evaluative skills that we learn with examples from law, science, public policy, politics, and ethics. Topics that will be covered include, but are not limited to, how to analyze arguments, informal fallacies in reasoning, cognitive/psychological biases, inductive and deductive reasoning, and scientific and probabilistic reasoning.