May 03, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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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
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Assess the potential for communication practices to shape and guide health-related behaviors.
  • Describe a schema for charting the extant literature in health communication.
  • Discuss and debate the role of health communication in the broader communication discipline.
  • Evaluate theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of scholarly work in health communication.



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