Master of Health Communication and Information Courses
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Health Communication (3)
The course is designed to introduce students to major areas of research and professional practice in the field of health communication, including: (a) patient-healthcare provider communication, (b) inter-professional communication in healthcare, (c) multilevel health promotion campaigns and interventions, (d) multi-/inter-cultural health communication, (e) e-health, m-health, and telehealth applications, and (f) risk and crisis communication, among others.
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Mediated Health Communication (3)
This course provides an overview of theory and research related to the role of the media in promoting public health efforts and advances. The course reviews theories of health behavior change and message effects, and discusses applications of these theories to media-based health initiatives. Through the course, the students will examine the interplay among theory, research and practice and further discuss how theory informs practice and how research aids in theory construction and refinement.
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Health Communication Campaigns (3)
This course considers the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health communication programs that aim to influence the health-related behaviors of individuals, groups, and communities. The first part of the course reviews the theoretical foundations of public health communication campaigns, including key theories of health behavior change and communication theories that augment them. The second part introduces students to key planning and design considerations of successful public health communication campaigns. The third and final part of the course engages students with the versatile communication strategies and skills that health communication professionals employ routinely to influence people's health-related decisions and behaviors.
By blending theory and practice, this course (a) provides a starting point for developing knowledge of health campaigns, (b) encourages thoughtful criticism of past campaigns based on solid theoretical ideas, and (c) equips students with creative problem-solving skills that can be applied to the design of actual campaigns. Through a series of individual and group assignments, students have an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills they acquire in this class to the formulation, design, and evaluation of a communication campaign addressing a health problem of their choice.
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Interpersonal and Relational Facets of Health Communication (3)
This graduate seminar examines issues of interpersonal dynamics when talking about health and healthcare. Discussion centers on the role of communication in healthcare interactions and examine how communication can facilitate, hinder, or create inequities of care that occurs among patients. The course will review communication among clinicians, patients, and significant others and families. Themes of discussion include patient-provider communication, culture in healthcare, medical mistrust, health literacy, and the role of close others in managing healthcare.
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Conflict Management and Communication
This course explores a variety of approaches to conflict and the relevant contexts within which conflict management occurs. It covers three major areas of study: conflict theories, styles and approaches; mitigating and managing conflict; and conflict resolutions.
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Health Sciences Information (3)
Bibliographic structures and resources used to provide collections and services in medical, dental, pharmaceutical, nursing, and other health fields. Emphasis on audiovisual materials, electronic searching, and networks in medical and dental schools, hospitals, and special libraries.
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17:503:548
Communication, Communities, and Health (3)
Evidence of renewed interest in the study of how the places we live in impact our health can be found across many disciplines, ranging from sociology and public health to geography and economics. This course emphasizes the contributions of communication to this line of research. Communication is an important social process through which neighborhood health effects manifest, but also a mechanism through which individuals, families, and community-based organizations and institutions can make the neighborhoods they live in and serve healthier places. In this class, you will be introduced to the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature around neighborhoods and health as well as the salient theoretical, methodological, and policy debates. More importantly, putting knowledge developed through the course to work, students will work individually and in small teams to diagnose public health challenges in local communities and develop proposals for how to solve them.
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Topics: Heath Communication I: Mediated Health Communication (3)
Focuses on how mediated communication is transforming health/medical practice and affecting health policy processes. Topics range from the way mediated communication sources affect the search for the acquisition of health information to the way these technologies are used to affect the behavior of individuals, groups, and entire populations.
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Topics: Heath Communication II: Interpersonal & Relational Facets of Health Communication (3)
This course overviews major themes of interpersonal health communication including issues such as physician-patient communication, relationships for individuals with health issues, and the relationship of communication to physical and mental health outcomes.
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Topics: Heath Communication III: Health Communication (3)
This class is designed to give an overview of the major fields of study in the area of health communication. This includes the areas of health communication campaigns, multicultural health communication, physician-patient communication, and communication among health professionals. The ultimate goal of health communication is to increase health and satisfaction by encouraging healthier behaviors, medical compliance, and more efficient communication of medical information.
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Topics: Participatory Community Engaged Research Methods and Ethics (3)
This course teaches a new paradigm for research and science according to which equal partnerships between academic researchers and community members are encouraged. Contemporary communities are diverse and interconnected and to impact positive social change and improve individual and community well-being, scholars, researchers and advocates must understand critical theories of community engagement along with the various models of engagement that have been adopted, from citizen science to community-based participatory research (CBPR). Additionally, community-engaged research comes with practical and ethical challenges.
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17:503:562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568
Special Topics in Health Communication V,VI,VII,VIII,IX,X,XI (3)
New courses developed in response to emerging areas of interest, and courses in traditional areas given occasionally as student demand dictates.
As appropriate for each topic.
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Master of Health Communication and Information 
