usefulness of the course projects

I personally have enjoyed the projects and feel that this is what the last critical thinking course I was taking lacked; it did not teach me how to apply the concepts we learned to everything else. I didn't have to read articles and find fallacies, or claims or test whether or not something was true. The last class I was in basically was venn diagrams and how critical thinking is not meanto to be applied to anything outside the "deductive universe".

Honestly, thats in the past and I could care less about that class, now that I am taking a class I actually understand :)

I think both of these projects have been helpful in my understand of the topics and I enjoy how they force me to apply what we are learning form the text into material that we are going to have to use and that we use on a normal basis. I think the second project has been my favorite. Our group examined the ASPCA, which is an organization that is near and dear to my heart. For those that don't know, the ASPCA is the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals. I personally enjoyed the topic of choice and think that it is important to be able to identify what we learn in the book to outside sources. I think each of these projects is a stepping stone for the next, though. Like, I am glad we did the article project first before which is so broad in topic and then had to pick something with a more definite focus, like a social organization. With both projects I enjoyed that the topic of choice was up to the group, because it gave us more freedom in choosing what we did, and makes the concepts more relatable when its something we are already familiar with or have an interest in.

I think for me, project 2 was easier when it came to establishing the concepts from the reading, because it was an organization I was very familiar with and knew enough about to where I can combine the information.