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CAS 253 – Health Communication

Students Teaching Students

In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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CAS 253 – Health Communication

How do people talk about health and illness? Why are some messages able to change people’s health behavior and others fail? How does someone design an effective health message?

Course Objectives

This course is designed to provide students with theoretical principles for designing and evaluating health messages that may be disseminated by health organizations, policy makers, and other interested publics. This course provides an overview of models of health communication and audience analysis. In the course, students have opportunities to evaluate existing health messages and are challenged to design their own theory-driven, audience-tailored health messages to address a current health challenge.