The aim of this course is to develop students’ critical and analytical thinking skills; to enable them to approach events, problems, and information from a multidimensional, questioning, and solution-oriented perspective; to make logical and coherent inferences and evaluate arguments, thereby equipping them with the competencies of effective decision-making, problem-solving, and creative thinking in professional practices within the field of recreation.

Definition of Critical and Analytical Thinking; Basic concepts and principles of critical and analytical thinking; Importance and characteristics of critical and analytical thinking; Basic processes in critical and analytical thinking; Critical and analytical thinking skills; differences between critical thinking and analytical thinking; factors affecting thought; language and logic in critical thinking, logic errors in critical thinking: tautologies, inferences, proofs; language errors in critical thinking and critical thinking studies and analysis on some philosophical texts.