Skills we seek to cultivate:

• Careful, open-minded, critical reading.
• The differentiation of arguments from non-arguments.
• The identifications of formal and informal fallacies in prose writing.
• Clear, detailed, textually supported expository writing.
• Cogent, logically structured, precise argumentative writing.
• Narrative ability to historically situate important issues and questions.
• Creative coordination of different disciplinary approaches to a single matter.
• Articulate, interrogative verbal questioning.
• Clear, respectful argumentative deliberation.
• Cooperative, flexible, deliberation aiming at stabilizing dissensus within some overlapping consensus.
• Organized, well-paced, audience-sensitive public presentations.
• Professional comportment in conference settings.