course code

IICS625

credits

3.0

course level

Graduate

Offers a holistic survey on current developments in communication studies with emphasis on physical, mental, spiritual, relational, and environmental well being in different communities and cultures. Deepens student understanding of ideas, research and practice related to public health disparities, provider-patient communication, social ecology of illness, health communication, e-health, public discourse and controversy on medicine, health, and environmental issues, and religion and health beliefs.