Health Communication

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to develop a greater understanding of health communication concepts, theories, research methods, cases, and other practices and their application to real-world health issues and problems. In this course, students will gain an understanding of the field of health communication; learn about health communication approaches across a wide variety of contexts-interpersonal (patient-caregiver), organizational (patient advocacy, hospital education, HR, hospital administration, public policy), mediated (PR, marketing, social media, public health campaigns); and explore the various career opportunities in health communication. Students will develop an area of interest for research and further application in their major.