Critical Thinking is a Life Relevancy: A Hospitality Management Student Case Study

ABSTRACT

This article describes a library workshop for freshman hospitality management students enrolled at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, which features a focus on critical thinking. An active learning experience uses an element of surprise. Students evaluate the Website of a bankrupt company where information about the company's situation is not obvious. When the instructor guides the class to find unbiased information from newspapers, many students begin to think critically about sources.

KEYWORDS:

• Critical thinking
• information literacy
• hospitality management
• evaluating Websites
• library instruction