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Current Trends in Health Communication

General

Prefix

CMST

Course Number

461

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

Communication Studies

College/School

College of Liberal Arts

Description

Discussion of communication topics related to specific health care contexts featuring a variety of speakers from the local health care community.

Credits

Min

3

Max

3

Repeatable

No

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

No

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Identify and analyze challenges to communicating in each of the health care contexts identified in the course.

Outcome

Develop and evaluate solutions for each of the challenges identified for the health care contexts identified in the course.

Course Outline

Course Outline

Communication topics related to interacting with health care systems (hospitals, insurance companies, nursing homes, etc.). 18% Communication topics related to the experience of ethnic minorities in the health care context. 18% Communication topics related to terminal diagnoses. 18% Communication topics related to the use of language interpreters in health care contexts. 18% Communication topics related to the experience of older adults in the health care context. 18% Other communication topics related to the health care context. 10%

Dependencies

Programs

CMST461 is a completion requirement for: