The contributions of twentieth-century political debate highlight the need for logically aware citizens. Further, the prominence of the law and legal issues make it easier to relate logic to the world. A subject that is inherently beautiful has become suffused with fun as well. Nothing is more useful in bringing logic to students. At the same time, it embraces logical ideas in linguistics, computer science, law, philosophy, politics, and comic opera.
Significant time is devoted to natural language debating.
Significant time is devoted to questions that are demonstrably unanswerable. Significant time is devoted to fun. The course is not difficult. The heart of logic is language. While the languages are, in some sense, artificial, they were constructed to reflect natural languages.