SPCH 105 - Introduction to Health Communication

When Offered: F, S, SS

3 Credit(s)
3 Lecture Hour(s)

Rooted in the communication discipline, this introductory level course examines how communication influences the ways that medical environments are understood and experienced; how biomedical information is communicated and contested by various constituents across different media; how communication is used to promote public health; and how media and popular culture shape understandings of health and disease.

Prerequisite(s): none