Advanced Logic

FSE Campus Venlo

Advanced Logic

Full course description

This course aims to develop students’ understanding of logic and argumentation by building on elements of argumentation introduced in the core course ‘Information Literacy’. The goal for the course is to familiarize students with a more formal approach to logic, and use this language of logic to both decode existing arguments as well as build new arguments.

Course objectives

  • Understand and apply symbolic notations for arguments and statements;
  • Understand the logical operations for conjunction, negation, and disjunction;
  • Learn how to construct and interpret truth tables

Prerequisites

Students who take the course need to have written at least one academic paper.

Recommendations

  • It is highly recommended that students have taken VCO1005 Information Literacy OR VSK2001 Argumentation prior to this course.

Recommended reading

E-reader with various articles and chapters on argument analysis and logic.

VSK2016
Period 1
2 Sep 2024
25 Oct 2024
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ECTS credits: 
2.5
Coordinator:
  • M.T. Kiefer
Teaching methods: 
Lecture(s), PBL
Assessment methods: 
Attendance, Assignment