Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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COMS 4300 - Health Communication in Neglected Tropical Disease Contexts
Effective communication is a core competence for responses to neglected tropical disease (NTD) threats. This course seeks to build capacity to allow systematic and coherent communication, response and management to NTDs. This course introduces a conceptual approach to tropical disease communication that emphasizes community listening and engagement, relationship building, creating supportive environments, and coordinating with other social and knowledge communities to reduce risk of exposure to tropical diseases and to create sustainable social change that ameliorates the impacts of NTDs on individuals and communities. Students may benefit from having already completed HLTH 2000 - Introduction to Public Health or COMS 3400 - Introduction to Health Communication.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to define neglected tropical diseases and articulate the differences between an NTD and other disease categories.
- Students will be able to design information gathering processes to collect and analyze insights from individuals and communities affected by NTDs.
- Students will be able to strategize relationship building processes in development, planning, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation in NTD communication.
- Students will be able to construct supportive communi
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