MA Health Communication
The MA programme in Health Communication provides a unique and exciting opportunity to investigate language and communication in health care contexts. The course programme offers a detailed and comprehensive coverage of the main areas of health care communication, with the opportunity to specialise in areas according to students’ own interests and research.
The MA in Health Communication is a distance learning programme and includes the option of voluntary day schools held for participants in Nottingham. Because of its strong emphasis on the analysis and discussion of real-life settings and practical health care contexts, the course is particularly suitable for health care professionals who wish to further their career and professional development, as well as students who wish to continue their studies to PhD level.
Communication is the dominant activity in health care delivery. With established and new approaches to the study of health care language at Nottingham we aim to advance evidence-based practice in this field. By combining theoretical and ideological dimensions with practical applications in a convenient web-based course, we offer busy practitioners the benefit of flexible, distance learning.
The MA in Health Communication examines the role of language in a comprehensive and diverse range of health care settings and focuses on established approaches used to analyse and interrogate health care interaction, ranging from narratology and corpus linguistics to conversation and discourse analysis. With such a particular focus on research methodology, this programme also offers a unique opportunity for investigating language and communication from interdisciplinary perspectives.
The course is run by The University of Nottingham Health Language Research Group, which incorporates the School of Nursing, Sociology and Social Policy and English Studies, all of which look to communication as a way of making sense of health care. The University of Nottingham has an international reputation for research and teaching in the field of professional communication.
The study of health communication is a rapidly expanding field and the distance learning programme has been designed to reflect the growing interest in and importance of health care communication.