This course fulfills the First-Year Seminar (FYS)requirement of the 2015 University Studies Program. As amember of this course, you will learn and practice theimportant skill of critically examining and evaluatingevidence, claims, beliefs, or points of view about relavantand meaningful agricultural and natural resource issues.You will engage in active learning, systematic inquiry ofpressing issues, and processing of individual andcollaborative ideas. You will emerge with a "first-rateintelligence" - the ability to consider multiple opposingideas (which you are often bombarded with thanks to socialmedia) without losing the ability to think rationally, keepan open mind, consider all viewpoints, and develop aninformed opinion.