Apr 24, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2020-21 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2020-21 [Archived Catalog]

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COMS 8400 - Health Communication in Organizing


This course introduces students to research on health communication issues in organizing and provides a forum for developing a research agenda in this area. Underscoring course reading and assignments is the assumption that health, wellness, illness, and healing acquire meaning through symbolic interactions located within social, political, economic, and cultural structures.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Articulating a discursive orientation to understanding the organizing of health and health care resources.
  • Articulating, enlarging, and in some cases transforming, our personal and professional goals.
  • Identify connections between health communication in organizing literature and student scholarly interests.
  • Thinking critically about the political, cultural, historical, and social aspects of institutional discourses.
  • Tracing connections between primary theorists and contemporary theorizing about discourses, organizing, and health.



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