Risk Communications

4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)

Lecture, three hours; fieldwork, one hour. Requisites: courses 200A, 200B, 200C, or prior public health and behavioral sciences courses. Risk communication theory, research, and practice, including social and psychological bases of population risk perceptions, media theories, and how risk is portrayed in media. Environmental, product safety, food-borne and infectious diseases, disasters, and bioterrorism communication. Letter grading.