Spring 2027

Communication and Health Inequalities

Communication and Health Inequalities explores how communication contributes to and reduces health disparities, covering social scientific theories, research methods, and public discourse on social determinants of health.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain the ways in which communication contributes to and can ameliorate health inequalities

  • Describe communication and social science theories and research methods that are commonly employed to study communication and health inequalities

  • Critique methodology and samples designed to examine the relationships between communication and health inequalities

  • Use communication theories and concepts to evaluate current communication about health inequalities

  • Write cogent analyses of journal articles, policy documents, and media

  • Develop a project that relates to communication and health inequalities and that utilizes appropriate, relevant theory and concepts from the literature

  • Synthesize, apply, and/or extend communication theories and research methods to investigate issues around communication and health inequalities

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COMARTS 518

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Role of communication in contributing to and reducing health inequalities.
  • Social scientific theories and research on communication inequalities and public discourse regarding social determinants of health.

Skills

  • Explain how communication contributes to and ameliorates health inequalities.
  • Describe communication and social science theories and research methods for studying health inequalities.
  • Critique methodology and samples examining communication and health inequality relationships.
  • Use communication theories and concepts to evaluate current health inequality communication.
  • Write cogent analyses of journal articles, policy documents, and media.
  • Develop projects relating to communication and health inequalities using relevant theory.
  • Synthesize, apply, or extend communication theories and research methods to investigate health inequality issues.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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