The Distance Learning Logic course strengthens the student’s critical thinking and writing skills. Through a combination of weekly readings and online lectures, students are introduced to essential concepts in critical analysis and logic. They learn to distinguish between deductive and inductive arguments, develop techniques for analyzing and evaluating arguments, identify common rhetorical devices, and use basic logical concepts and the rules of deduction. Students wrestle with moral, legal, and aesthetic reasoning, while also critically examining the epistemological arguments related to Skepticism, Foundationalism, and the Reason versus Faith debate. Weekly homework assignments challenge students to demonstrate proficiency in such skills as argument analysis, recognizing/evaluating rhetorical devices, categorical logic, symbolic logic, and the writing of critical essays. Students will participate frequently in classwide Discussion Forums. Students’ progress will be measured by means of weekly homework submissions, a midterm and final examination, and one synthesis paper where the student critically examines Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (1641).