COMM 422 - Politics of Health Communication

Units: 3

Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC

Prerequisite(s): COMM 300, COMM 321, and COMM 350. Admission to a major, minor, or the health communication certificate program in the School of Communication.

How communicating about health is culturally and politically charged. Contemporary concerns in health communication to include how ethnicity, gender, disability, social class, and sexual orientation inform our understandings of health, fitness, and illness.