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Aug 31, 2025
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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog
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HPH 551 - Practice of Health Communications
This course provides an overview of health communication.The course will introduce theories concerning healthcommunication, and build on such to provide practicalapproaches to interpersonal and organizational healthcommunication, risk communication, and media campaigns.Students will learn to collect, organize, and convey informationeffectively to different audiences important to public healthinitiatives. Throughout, the course will emphasize how healthliteracy and cultural beliefs influence effective communication,and students will be challenged to develop communicationtools (e.g., social marketing campaigns, presentations,op-eds) optimized for a specific population.
3 credits
Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Public Health Program and Department Consent
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
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