"Critical thinking consists of me processes of discernment, analysis and evaluation. It includes possible processes of reflecting upon a tangible or intangible item in order to form a solid judgment that reconciles scientific evidence with common sense. In contemporary usage "critical" has a certain negative connotation which does not apply to this specific case.[1] Though the term "analytical thinking" may seem to convey the idea more accurately, critical thinking clearly involves synthesis, evaluation, and reconstruction of thinking, in addition to analysis.
Critical thinkers gather information from all senses, verbal and/or written expressions, reflection, observation, experience and reasoning. Critical thinking has its basis in intellectual criteria that go beyond subject-matter divisions and which include: clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance and fairness."
To me critical thinking constitutes analysis of a problem, process or event in an exhaustive way in means, knowledge and possibilities. It may or may not require a structured decomposition of an event and then studying each component (analysis) or studying the event with all the components together assuming interactions (systems approach). It may very well require us to think out of the box against general/well established approach towards such problems.
Introduction:
My first academic wish is to be able to be able to model/simulate anything i come across and like :D and I am sure I am not even close to be able to fulfill it yet. So, I have decided to keep it a little narrow and work on Environmental and Water Resources Systems and I find I may not still be able to fulfill my dream(Its not as narrow as I thought!!)
The CVEN-665 course is my first step towards acquiring skills in order to understand, model and simulate water resources systems and I am very excited about it.
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