CHL5114H: Health Communications

This is a graduate course that explores different ways of communicating about health. It covers a wide range of topics, including how our behaviour, society, politics, and culture all play a role in health communication. Throughout the course, we’ll be engaging with various materials and activities. We’ll be watching videos, reading articles, listening to podcasts, writing papers, and even creating our own content. These activities will help us understand why communication is so important in personal, interpersonal, AI-supported, and collaborative institutional contexts. We’ll also explore how messages are created, shared, and sometimes distorted. By studying the work of health promoters and looking at the framing, frequency, and fun of different forms of health communication in social media, in campaigns, in knowledge mobilization of health research evidence and even in misinformation (infodemics), we’ll gain insights into the impact of health communication. We’ll learn how they can be used on their own or together to inform, educate, and engage different individuals, groups, and networks within organizations.

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Course is eligible to be completed as Credit/No Credit: Yes
St. George