CMST 222 - Coaching and Mentoring Public Speakers

Credits: 5
Offers students who have taken a beginning public speaking course. An opportunity to enhance the public speaking skills learned in their previous course by presenting at least two speeches. Students also learn skills that will enable them to coach other students wishing to improve their presentations. Course also entails a review of the principles of effective public speaking, observing coaching sessions in the Green River Public Speaking Center, and actively coaching other students in the Public Speaking Center. Course is useful for future teachers, as well as any student whose future careers or community involvement will require delivering presentations.

Prerequisite: CMST& 220  with a grade of 3.2 or higher; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Organize and deliver informative and persuasive speeches.
2. Critique their own presentation as well as the presentations of others.
3. Employ communication theory in speech analysis.
4. Provide effective feedback to other speakers.
5. Coach other public speakers. 

1. Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context.

2. Use, synthesize, or produce needed information ethically.

3. Form, analyze, and assess beliefs while demonstrating intellectual humility and respect towards the beliefs of others.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.