COM 4625 - Health Communication

Credits: 4

This course explores the way in which communication as symbolic activity affects the form and practice of contemporary health care. Because the provision of quality health care is a human activity central to the maintenance of society, health communication plays a crucial role not only by promoting the effective exchange of medical information, but by helping to shape the very conditions and perceptions of how health is practiced. This course addresses what communication has to do with health, and how taking action through communication can contribute productively to the increased humanization of health care institutions and routines.
Prerequisite(s): COM 1020 and COM 2401 or COM 2801 .