• COMM 5116: Health, Comm, Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Health and illness are as much cultural issues as they are biological phenomena. As such, communication plays a key role in our perceptions and practices around health. This course is designed to examine the relationships among health, culture, and communication, in four ways: (1) broad cultural assumptions and understandings of health and medicine, historically and today; (2) cultural differences in health communication, including and especially in provider-patient contexts; (3) mediated constructions of health, illness, and medicine; and (4) health campaigns and initiatives.
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• COMM 5117: Health Campaigns, Media

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course aims to introduce the student to the theories, research and practice of health communication campaigns, including theories of health behavior change, campaign processes and stages (including planning, implementation, and evaluation), audience analysis, effective uses of media strategies (such as emotional appeal, framing) and media channels, and health promotion through media advocacy. Through this course the student will attain a solid knowledge about health communication campaign as well as develop the skill set that will be useful to a professional career in health communication.
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• COMM 5118: Health Literacy

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course is designed to examine the current understanding of health literacy in the context of communication and to build skills in plain-language verbal and written communication and intervention strategies. The course will focus on: (1) relationships between health literacy and health care access, health outcomes, and health disparities; (2) assessment of health literacy in different communities; (3) plain-language strategies for written and verbal communication; and (4) designing intervention strategies for individuals with limited health literacy.
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• COMM 5119: Grief Communication

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  The course will illuminate a communicative process in which we make sense of, negotiate, and grieve loss in a variety of settings. Students will be challenged to explore how we try to communicate loss, grief, and trauma with the aid of a wide range of media in ways that provoke empathy for one another.
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• COMM 5140: Comm And Aging

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Introduction to communication and aging perspectives. These perspectives provide a unifying thread to a truly interdisciplinary inquiry into the studies of the aging process. Issues pertaining to the communication and aging perspective, including attitudes and ageism, relational considerations of older adults (such as the role of communication in reminiscence, intimacy, helping, and loneliness), mass media, work, leisure and retirement, and family relationships and friendships included. Offered odd years.
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• COMM 5150: Dialogue & Comm Engage

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Through direct community engagement, this course will help students move beyond silence and shouting and instead provide them with skills to discuss difficult community issues with a spirit of curiosity. Through communication techniques which emphasize attention, listening, and understanding, students will partner with community organizations to analyze, assess, and address specific issues using dialogue techniques.
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• COMM 5170: Contmp Issues Org Comm

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Interpretive and symbolic approaches to organizational communication. Exploration of the role of communication in creation of organizational reality and organizational responses to challenges presented by changing cultural and social contexts (such as conflict, diversity, home-workplace tensions, changing employee-employer relations, new technology, etc.). May be taken two times for credit.
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• COMM 5200: Persuasion & Pol Comm

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Theory and practice in modern persuasion situations, with emphasis on teaching students to become critical consumers of persuasive messages.
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• COMM 5300: Mass Communication Law

  4.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  First Amendment origin and interpretations. Rights, regulation, and responsibilities of media. Case studies. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Communication AND Senior level status or higher
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• COMM 5320: Freedom Of Expression

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Legal, political, and philosophical issues in systems of public communication under the First Amendment.
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