The curriculum for the Health Communication Certificate Program will be flexible to address the needs of students. The certificate will be granted after the completion of 18 credit hours selected with the consent of an advisor. The curriculum will include work in both communication and health. MAPC students generally concentrate on health content courses, while health professionals generally concentrate on technical communication courses. MAPC students will be able to count certificate courses as cognates and electives, requiring few additional courses to add the certificate onto the MA degree.

ENGL 804 (3,0) Fundamentals of Health Communication. This course covers the history, basic theories, and practices of both strands of health communication: medical rhetoric and communication studies in health.

ENGL 806 (3,0) Medical Rhetoric and Writing. This course will cover the many genres of writing, electronic texts and ethics in the health professions.

ENGL 807 (3,0) Health Communication Planning, Application, and Evaluation. This course will cover planning for public health campaigns. Faculty in English, Communication Studies, and Public Heath will teach this course.

In addition to these courses, a wide variety of electives will be available to help meet the needs of the individual students. These courses will include, but are not limited to, the following:

ENGL 675 (3,0) Writing for Media. This course serves as a workshop in new forms of writing and hyper textual design for interactive electronic media. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

ENGL 678 (3,0) Digital Literacy. Examines how electronic texts differ
from and resemble print texts. Includes reading, studying, and analyzing print and digital texts to determine how digital techniques change patterns of reading and how readers make sense of electronic texts.

ENGL 690 (3,0) Advanced Technical and Business Writing. Advanced work in writing proposals, manuals, reports and publishable articles. Students will produce work individually and in groups. Prerequisite: ENGL 304 or 314 or permission of instructor.

ENGL 694 (3,0) Writing about Science. Advanced work in writing and editing for peer and lay audiences.

ENGL 833 (3,0) Rhetoric of Science. Rhetorical approaches to understanding science and scientific rhetorics.

ENGL 836 (3,0) Digital Publishing Technologies: Theories in Practice. User-centered design theories applied to multimedia interfaces and on-line documents for professional communicators.

ENGL 838 (3,0) Global Professional Communication. Implications of professional communication in a global economy; theories of global professional communication; research methods for studying communication in the global workplace; models for global communicative practices.

ENGL 839 (3,0) Writing Proposals and Grant Applications. Practice in reading requests for proposals, analyzing rhetorical contexts and theories of proposals, and writing proposals and grant applications.

ENGL 853 (3,0) Visual Communication. Understanding the language of images used in textual and extratextual communication; theories of perception, methods of visual persuasion, gender analysis, and cognitive and aesthetic philosophies of visual rhetoric. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

PHIL 346/Graduate Directed Study (3,0) Medical Ethics. Examines ethical dilemmas facing modern medicine. Topics may include controversies surrounding death, reproductive technologies, abortion, allocation of resources, the concept of disease, the doctor-patient relationship, and medical research. Sign up as independent study with instructor.

PSYCH 680 (3,0) Health Psychology. The role of health-related behaviors in the prevention, development and/or exacerbation of health problems; the biopsychosocial model and its application in the assessment, treatment and prevention of health problems. Prerequisite: PSYCH 201, one 300-level psychology course or permission of instructor.

SOC 680 (3,0) Medical Sociology. This course aims to demonstrate how health and illness are closely intertwined with culture, social structure, and social inequality. This course will look at how social factors influences 1) health care professionals' role development and performances, 2) the onset of disease and illness and its connection to social inequality, 3) the interactions between clients and practitioners, 4) the different forms of medicine and medical delivery systems, and 5) the status of health care in the United States. Prerequisites: SOC 201 and junior standing or permission of instructor.

SPCH 670 (3,0) Communication and Health. Institutional and health care communication issues; the relationship between social issues, communication and health.

Other medical humanities and communication courses planned.