CMST 407 - Communication and Healthcare

Credits: 3

In this course, students will be introduced to the many ways that we, as human beings, communicate about our health. This seminar has been designed to integrate numerous theoretical and methodological perspectives on health communication in order to give students a broader scope of how health messages and health communication processes are enacted, mediated, conceptualized, and studied. In this course, students will read and analyze how we communicate health messages interpersonally, organizationally, rhetorically, and through the mass media. Furthermore, through studying diverse health communication processes, students should become more aware of how these processes influence and impact each other (e.g., television messages about smoking impact how people discuss tobacco use interpersonally).

Prerequisite(s): CMST 107 (grade of C or better), CMST 301 and junior standing.

Term(s) Offered: Fall, odd-numbered years

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