This concentration prepares students for careers in local, state, or federal health agencies, hospitals/medical practices, non-profits, health-related industry, private research groups/foundations, and health education/promotion consulting firms. Students will gain strong writing and research skills and gain knowledge in the areas of: health communication, provider-patient communication, and health campaigns.<br>Communication studies provides students with modern academic programs for the purpose of understanding human communication. Courses examine multiple, cross disciplinary approaches for studying messages and outcomes resulting from human interactive processes that involve the content and relationship dimensions of sources, receivers, channels and contexts. Emphasis is upon person-to-person transactions involving face-to-face and social media venues at the interpersonal, small group, organizational, and public levels. Instruction employs ways of knowing and research methodologies of social science, historical/critical analysis, and art. Our graduates have successful careers in business, education, government, conflict analysis and intervention, health, public relations, entertainment, personnel management, politics, sales, conference and event planning, hospitality industries and more.