Health Communication Certificate

Program Description

An interdisciplinary Health Communication Certificate (HCC) is offered for Clemson graduate students and practicing health professionals with or currently pursuing graduate degrees in Nursing, Health Sciences, or other fields. This nine credit hour program focuses on doctor-patient interaction and public health campaigns for individuals, families, caregivers, and relationships. Students come from health industries, Communication, Educational Leadership, Counseling, Marketing, Journalism, Microbiology, and other areas. The program offers you the ability to develop communication skills for academic, pharmaceutical, scientific, medical and/or health industry careers. It especially targets jobs in hospital systems, HMOs, clinics, CDC and other local, national and international health organizations.

Unlike other programs in health communication, this program is geared toward the technological skills more applicable to today’s health industry. The program can be customized to individual student needs, whether they be centered on technological skills available through the HCC program or targeted for those who already have technical skills in health content and/or medical humanities.