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Critical Thinking Skills for the Professional
Beginner English Professional CertificateFREE
What you'll learn
Apply a seven-step critical-thinking model
Define problems clearly before solving them
Analyse options systematically
Make and justify recommendations
Ask sharper, more useful questions
Use and respond to feedback effectively
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Certificate
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Mobile access
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Instructor
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Diane Davidson
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Diane Davidson teaches for UC Davis's continuing and professional education programs. Learners praise her engaging delivery, and the course is built around a practical, repeatable problem-solving model rather than abstract logic.
Requirements
- Beginner-friendly; 1–2 years' work experience helps
Who this course is for
- Professionals making decisions at work
- Anyone wanting a practical thinking framework
- Learners in the Professional Skills specialization
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Frequently asked questions
Practical — it teaches critical thinking as a usable seven-step problem-solving process applied to real situations, rather than abstract logic or philosophy.
You can audit the full course free on Coursera. A certificate is available with a subscription.
It's beginner-friendly, though a year or two of work experience helps you apply the model to situations you recognise.
About nine hours of flexible, self-paced content.
Yes — it's part of UC Davis's Professional Skills for the Workplace specialization, so it pairs with related soft-skills courses.