Course: COMS 312. Health Communication (3)
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. This course explores the relationship between communication and health and well-being across a variety of contexts, including in interpersonal relationships, provider-patient interactions, and mediated contexts. Major topics include how people through different practices produce and process communication related to health and well-being, how messages impact specific health outcomes, and how people’s health and well-being are affected by public policy and health promotion. (Available for General Education, D1 Social Sciences.)