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Semester:	Summer 2021
Number:	0108-202-002
Instructor:	Margaret Cassidy
Days:	TBA
Note:	Online, Asynchronous
Location:	Online
Credits:	3
Status:	Cancelled
Course Meets:	July 17 - August 21
Course Materials:	View Text Books
Description:	Students will examine human communication in health and healthcare, including interpersonal interaction between patients and providers and the role of media in individual health and public health campaigns. Students will research, write, and revise an advocacy paper about a public health issue and design a media campaign for that issue. (Learning Goals:CW)
Learning Goals:	1. examine and evaluate the interpersonal interaction between patients and practitioners and devise strategies to improve that interaction;2. study strategies for public health campaigns and behavioral change to improve public health;3. research, write, and revise a paper that explores a public health issue and advocates for specific change;4. develop a proposal for a media campaign that addresses the issue explored in the advocacy paper. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.