Health Communication

Catalog description

This course focuses on applying organizational communication theories and concepts to understand others better and to control one’s own communication in organizations. Theoretical overview of organization communication including communication flow, networks, organizational relationships, groups, conflict, and language will be presented. Special topics including teams in organizations, diversity, organizational politics, leadership, and change will be presented. Issues such as terrorism, public health crises, and corporate malfeasance have increased the importance of crisis communication. Enhancing effective crisis communication skills; promoting the understanding of the counter-intuitive nature of crisis communication; utilizing crisis communication theory and perspectives to argue for effectiveness and ineffectiveness in crisis communication; and assisting interactions between students, researchers, and policy makers on effective crisis communication will also be presented.