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    Mar 28, 2024  
Spring 2021 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

COM (0108) 202 - Introduction to Health Communication


Credits: 3.00

Students will examine human communication in health and healthcare, including interpersonal interaction between patients and providers and the role of media in individual health and public health campaigns. Students will research, write, and revise an advocacy paper about a public health issue and design a media campaign for that issue.

Course Learning Goals:
  1. examine and evaluate the interpersonal interaction between patients and practitioners and devise strategies to improve that interaction;
  2. study strategies for public health campaigns and behavioral change to improve public health;
  3. research, write, and revise a paper that explores a public health issue and advocates for specific change;
  4. develop a proposal for a media campaign that addresses the issue explored in the advocacy paper.