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Feb 01, 2025
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COMH 280A: Special Topics: Health Communication in the 21st Century Semester Hours: 3
This course will provide students with practical experience on communicating effective health information to media savvy audiences. Communicating information about health is a vital, if often overlooked component in disease prevention and health promotion. Health care providers as well as individual consumers often struggle with the most effective ways to transmit and understand complex messages about how to be healthy. With information technology’s rapid changes and audience’s changing expectations, health communication is at a crossroads in the second decade of the twenty first century. This on-line course will survey theory and practice and examine the process of communicating health messages through an interdisciplinary lens. The course will explore such contemporary topics as: health promotion media campaigns, provider communication, risk communication, cultural competency in health communication, online health information, social media and health, and how audiences interpret health messages.
Summer Session III Offering(s):
80086: August 4-22; Distance Learning Courses ; Hackett
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