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Health Communication Programs
Location
Internet
Term
3rd Term
Department
Health, Behavior and Society
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2021 - 2022
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
Yes
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Introduction to Online Learning.
Focuses on the step-by-step design, implementation, evaluation, and critique of communication programs designed to change behavior. Allows students to create actual health communication campaigns guided by P-Process worksheets.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Carry out a small scale communication campaign to promote a desirable health practice
- Develop a large scale project including researching, designing and developing materials, implementing, monitoring, and working with evaluators to measure the program's effectiveness
- Demonstrate competency by preparing and reporting on a complete campaign developed with P-Process worksheets
- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of a health communication plan according to a systematic set of rubrics
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 20% Midterm Paper
- 10% LiveTalks
- 50% Presentation(s)
- 10% Assignments
- 10% Peer-feedback
Course must be taken for letter grade, not audit.