Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 1B · IGETC Area 1B · CSU GE Area A3DescriptionPrerequisite: ENGL C1000 (formerly ENGLISH 101) with a grade of "C" or better. Students in this course develop and refine critical thinking and writing skills with an emphasis on media literacy. Students will critically evaluate the quality of infor- mation sources, recognize the difference between news and opinion, evidence and inference, media bias and audience bias and will use inductive and deductive rea- soning to evaluate claims. Development and application of reading skills in the interpretation, analysis, criticism, and advocacy of ideas encountered in academic readings across the curriculum and Internet media sources. Students develop tools to evaluate creditability, truth and accuracy through critical examination of news, opinion, advertising, public relations, entertainment and social media. 