The Certificate of Graduate Study in Health Communication is an interdisciplinary certificate administered by the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior; the School of Journalism and Mass Communications; and the School of Information Science.  This is an 18-hour post-bachelor's program which provides students with opportunities to strengthen their knowledge in health communication content, research methods, and application. Students will select Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior; Journalism and Mass Communications; or Library and Information Science as an interest area. 

The program consists of 18 graduate credit hours (a total of six three-credit hour courses).  To earn the certificate, students must complete:

1.  The certificate core (9 hours)

• HPEB 711 - Applied Health Communication
• ISCI  749 - Health Sciences Information Resources

One of the following:

• JOUR 702 - Communication Theory 
• JOUR 772 - Seminar in Health, Science, and the Media
• JOUR 775 - Strategic Communication for Behavior and Social Change
• JOUR 803 - Seminar in Mass Communication Theory and Theory Construction

2.  Six directed elective hours from an approved list provided by the school, depending on the student’s interests as approved by the student’s faculty advisor and the associate director for graduate studies.

3.  A 3 credit-hour practicum or project in the student’s home department.