Discover the secrets and skills to becoming successful in two important everyday activities in this engaging and practical two-course set.

Making a good decision is a skill—one that can be learned, honed, and perfected. Now, approach the important decisions in your life with a more seasoned, educated eye. The Art of Critical Decision Making explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective choices. These 24 fascinating lectures also provide you with the skills and techniques you need to enhance the effectiveness of your own decision making. Taught by Professor Michael A. Roberto—a scholar of managerial decision making—this course is an engaging and practical guide to one of the most fundamental activities in your everyday life.

Afterwards, strengthen your ability to successfully argue your views in Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition. Award-winning Professor David Zarefsky teaches you how to reason, how to persuade others that what you think is right, and how to judge and respond to the arguments of others. In exploring key concepts of argumentation—including the tools of formal logic and the parts of an argument—these 24 lectures make argumentation accessible and familiar to you. By the conclusion of the course, you'll have a comprehensive guide to the learning and methods that make argumentation possible in, and essential to, your daily life.