COMS 7400 - Introduction to Health Communication

Survey of the wide range of topics within the area of health communication, including cultural concepts of health, patient centered meanings of health, physician patient interaction, social support, health promotion campaigns, harm reduction campaigns, mass media constructions of health, risk communication, and health-related values and ethics.

Requisites

Credit Hours: 4.0
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I