IntelliCademy Critical Thinking and Structured Analysis
Offered to the Jacksonville and Northeast Florida community through UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning in partnership with Applied Technology Academy — live online or in person, taught by ATA's practitioner instructors.
Course Overview
The Analyst’s Edge: Critical Thinking and Structured Analysis is a five-day, instructor-led online program designed to strengthen analytic rigor and foster deep self-awareness of individual thinking processes. Grounded in ICD 203 and inspired by The Foundation for Critical Thinking, this course does not prescribe “what” or “how” to think. Instead, it emphasizes metacognition, enabling participants to recognize, evaluate, and refine their own cognitive strategies for more objective, unbiased analysis.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Day One
- • Introduction
- • Critical Thinking
- • Biases
- • Logical Fallacies
- Module 2: Day Two
- • Questions
- • Structured Analysis
- • Brainstorming
- • Assumptions
- Module 3: Day Three
- • Problem Restatement
- • Deception
- • Hypotheses
- • Analysis of Competing Hypotheses
- Module 4: Day Four
- • Indicators
- • Challenge Analysis
- • Pros Cons Fixes
- Module 5: Day Five
- • Capstone
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.