COMM 372 Health Communication

General

• Understand the social construction of race and racism;
• Analyze how the social construction of race and racism impacts health care access, provider-patient communication, and outcomes;
• Demonstrate the ability to critically review health care information from the perspective of diverse audiences;
• Demonstrate the ability to prepare a health communication campaign (problem, strategy, implementation) through a health communication campaign project;
• Understand the differential impacts of health communication campaigns, policies, and administrative practices on diverse groups of health care recipients;
• Analyze the legacies and the impacts of racism in the United States on health care campaigns and policies;
• Analyze how different racial and ethnic populations are impacted by health care policies, procedures, and practices;
• Explain collective and institutional responses and responsibilities to address racism.