• Health Communication

Catalog description

Explores how communication shapes health care. How differences in expectations, power, and experiences within health encounters are influenced by culture, psychology, and social systems. How societies define health, and communicate to address health literacy, disparities, and trust. Practical strategies to help patients and providers communicate to improve dialogue. Prerequisites: [ GES 130 ; GES 160 or GES 149 ]; Contemporary Western Life and Thought (L) course or World Cultures (U) course. Offered: Spring, odd # years.