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Health Communication (Minor)

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The Health Communication Minor is designed to prepare students with the communication knowledge and skills to work in a health-related field. Students will complete courses that focus on development of communication skills, research methodology, and theory in the health communication field.

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  • Minor
Location
  • Bloomsburg
  • Lock Haven
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Health Communication Minor Requirements

  • 18 credits required for minor completion
  • Students should meet with their academic advisor each semester and use Degree Works to monitor their individual progress toward completion of the minor.

Minor Requirements

Upon successful completion of this program, Health Communication minors will be able to:

  1. Integrate theory, research, and practice in health communication contexts.
  2. Exhibit social responsibility and professionalism in their communicative interactions with others in health contexts.
  3. Display the communication skills necessary to engage in competent human relational interaction in multiple health contexts.

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