Communication and Health Disparities ((3 Units))

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Graduate Studies. This course takes a critical cultural approach to studying health communication disparities across contexts. Students critically examine the ways power disparities impact effective communication in a host of settings, including patient-provider relationships, health care organizations, and public health campaigns. The goal is to raise awareness of the role communication plays in both perpetuating and challenging health care disparities that exist along the lines of gender, sex, sexuality, race, citizen status, and socio-economic status.