Certificate of Less than One Year in Health Communication

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This 12-hour certificate seeks to provide students the opportunity to focus on communication in the healthcare context. Students will learn how various factors (demographics, personality, communication styles, personal history, cultural background) impact patient-provider interactions. They will also study public health messaging, paying particular attention to health communication campaigns and discussions of health-related issues in the public sphere.

Required Courses (9 credit hours)

Students are required to take both COMM 4220 and COMM 4221. They can then choose to take either COMM 3340 Advanced Interpersonal Communication OR COMM 3360 Intercultural Communication.

COMM 4220 - Health Communication in Interpersonal Contexts 3 Credit Hours
COMM 4221 - Health Communication Campaigns 3 Credit Hours
and
COMM 3340 - Interpersonal Communication 3 Credit Hours
or
COMM 3360 - Communicating across Cultures 3 Credit Hours

Elective (3 credit hours)

Students are required to take one health-related, outside elective from the list provided. This will allow students to tailor their certificate program to their specific interests and career goals. Moreover, requiring an outside elective also embraces the notion that health communication is interdisciplinary in nature.

ANTH 3180 - Environment and Health: Anthropological Perspectives 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 4121 - Drugs, Culture & Society 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 4130 - Medical Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 4190 - Modern Shamanism 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 4411 - Scientific Communication 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 4411 - Scientific Communication 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 4411 - Scientific Communication 3 Credit Hours
GEOL 4411 - Scientific Communication 3 Credit Hours
PHYS 4411 - Scientific Communication 3 Credit Hours
POLS 4208 - Health Policy 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 3580 - Holistic Health Psychology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 3800 - Psychology of Mind and Body 3.0 - 4.0 Credit Hours
SOCI 3804 - Death, Grief and Caring 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 4439 - Sociology of Global Health 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 4440 - Medical Sociology 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 4441 - Sociology of Mental Health 3 Credit Hours