Media for Community Health and Well Being

Catalog description

This course immerses students in selected aspects of health communication using the digital media technologies currently revolutionizing the health communication field. The course highlights student mastery through tutorials using some of the new computer technologies and touches on theoretical and research approaches to studying "new media" and what this trend implies for community health practice. There is also exploration of the developing field of health literacy for both patients in the health care systems as well as the general public. This course requires a mandatory 20-hour service learning co-requisite.