Biography

Associate Teaching Professor, Communication Studies
Coordinator, Public Speaking
M.A., University of Connecticut

Patti Coughlan began teaching at Rowan in Fall 2002. She has over 30 years' experience in public education with a focus on communicative arts and gifted learners. Her teaching and research interests include technical speaking, anxiety's impact on public speaking, film adaptation as translation, addressing the diverse needs of learners, and the rhetoric of the brain. She serves as an educational consultant and motivational speaker. She was chosen by Rowan students to deliver the hypothetical "Last Lecture" in 2012.

Courses

CMS 04205  Public Speaking
ENGR 01202  Sophomore Engineering Clinic II
ENGR 01202  Honors Sophomore Engineering Clinic II
CMS 04215  Fiction to Film
CMS 04220  Interpersonal Communication