(3 hours - may be taken as a major requirement. These requirements must be filled at UNCW.)

This requirement offers an option; students can take 1) an additional course beyond the mathematics or statistics course used for the Mathematics and Statistics requirement, or an additional course beyond the science course used for the Scientific Approaches to the Natural World requirement, or a quantitative methods course from any discipline that acquaints a student with how quantitative reasoning is applied; or 2) an introductory logic, symbolic logic or critical thinking course that will improve student ability to reason critically by analyzing, evaluating and extending arguments.