Degree Requirements
Course Requirements
The Master of Arts in Health Communication requires 12 courses (48-credit hours) — three core courses, one methods course, five Health Communication electives, and three graduate electives inside or outside the program.
Core Courses
Students are required to take all of the following:
Course List Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
CMNS 500 | FOUNDATIONS IN GRADUATE COMMUNICATION STUDIES | 4 |
HTHC 515 | INTRO TO HEALTH COMMUNICATION | 4 |
HTHC 517 | COMMUNICATION, HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND CULTURE | 4 |
Methods Requirement
Course List Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
HTHC 516 | RESEARCH METHODS FOR HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS | 4 |
Elective Courses
Course List Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
1 | 32 |
HTHC 519 | ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATORS | |
HTHC 521 | HEALTH AND FAMILY COMMUNICATION | |
HTHC 523 | TOPICS IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION | |
HTHC 524 | HEALTH CARE TEAMS & LEADERSHIP | |
HTHC 525 | NARRATIVES IN HEALTH CARE | |
HTHC 526 | SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS | |
PRAD 515 | WRITING FOR A COMMUNICATION CAREER | |
PRAD 536 | ADVERTISING AND HEALTH CAMPAIGNS | |
PRAD 540 | CRISIS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT | |
PRAD 594 | COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE | |
CMN 591 | INTERNSHIP | |
CMN 592 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | |
CMN 593 | RESEARCH PRACTICUM | |
CMN 598 | STUDY ABROAD | |
CMNS 590 | COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP (VARIABLE TOPICS) | |
Comprehensive Final Examination
Students in the Master of Arts in Health Communication complete their degree requirements by passing a comprehensive final examination.
Optional Latino Media & Communication Concentration
The graduate concentration in Latino Media & Communication is comprised of at least three graduate courses drawn from the areas of advertising, journalism, media and cinema studies, multicultural communication, organizational communication and public relations. Graduate students in any of the College of Communication Master of Arts programs can elect to complete the Latino Media & Communication concentration. Students may need to use outside electives to complete this concentration.
Students who complete the concentration will:
- Develop an understanding of the heterogeneous and rapidly changing Latino communities locally, nationally and globally
- Ground their knowledge of intercultural studies within a more extensive and concrete knowledge of a particular (even though diverse), rapidly growing, and increasingly important population within the U.S.
- Increase their cross-cultural competence (understanding and ability to dialogue across difference, develop cultural sensitivity and awareness) with Latino communities
- Enhance their capacity to communicate with and learn from Latino populations in the workplace, in community situations and other sites of engagement
- Recognize the impact of the movement of Latinos across the globe and develop the skills to critically consume and produce media, public relations and advertisement representations that communicate to and about Latino communities
- Develop field-specific knowledge of Latino media and communication along with an understanding of how Latino studies shapes other fields of communication
Courses
Students are required to take three courses (12 credits) from the following list:
Course List Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
CMNS 509 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION 1 | |
CMNS 542 | MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN THE WORKPLACE | |
JOUR 515 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM 1 | |
MCS 521 | TOPICS IN CINEMA STUDIES 1 | |
MCS 533 | LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA/MEDIA | |
PRAD 511 | CONSUMER INSIGHTS | |
PRAD 512 | ENGAGING LATINX COMMUNITIES | |
PRAD 514 | CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PUBLIC RELATIONS AND ADVERTISING 1 | |
PRAD 595 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC RELATIONS & ADVERTISING 1 | |
CMN 591 | INTERNSHIP 1 | |
CMN 598 | STUDY ABROAD 1 | |
Grade Requirements
All students are required to maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.000 in their coursework. If a student's cumulative GPA falls below 3.000, the student will be allowed to complete an additional 16 credits or 3 quarters (whichever comes first) to attain the 3.000 minimum GPA. If the cumulative GPA remains below a 3.000 at the conclusion of this time period, the student may be dismissed from the program. The student's cumulative and term GPAs along with overall academic performance will be factored into the dismissal decision.
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