Courses

AS/A2 Critical Thinking

Central Foundation Boys’ School and Highbury Grove School

Course Outline

AQA Critical Thinking is characterized by the careful, reflective consideration of reasoned argument; and of the beliefs and claims that comprise arguments.

You will examine information, opinion and argument from a range of contexts – the sciences, arts and humanities, social sciences – as well as topics of general interest and concern. It will develop skills which complement your other studies across the curriculum, and help prepare you for the academic and intellectual demands of higher education, as well as future employment and life in general.

Critical Thinking is predominantly a practical, skills based discipline. No specialist knowledge of particular academic subjects is required. However, a course in Critical Thinking will introduce you to a range of concepts, terms and techniques that may be new to you, and which will enable you to reflect on your own and other peoples’ reasoning.

Entry Requirements

6 GCSEs at Grade C or above including Mathematics and a Grade A or A* in English or a related subject.

Assessment

100% examination.

Progression

Critical Thinking is a subject that gives you an edge with employers and universities because it demonstrates that you’ve got real life skills as well as the skills necessary to pass your other A Levels. It develops skills and encourages attitudes which complement other studies across the curriculum.

It forms part of the AQA Baccalaureate as a 'Breadth of Study' element. It thus adds more substance to your application to university and prepares you to be able to better engage in interviews and discussions.