Health and medicine in popular culture

Synchronous Activities:

Live meeting of class

Asynchronous Activities:

Read:

  1. Kinsler, J. J., Glik, D., de Castro Buffington, S., Malan, H., Nadjat-Haiem, C., Wainwright, N., & Papp-Green, M. (2019). A Content Analysis of How Sexual Behavior and Reproductive Health are Being Portrayed on Primetime Television Shows Being Watched by Teens and Young Adults.Off-campus login required. Health Communication, 34(6), 644–651. https://doi-org.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/10.1080/10410236.2018.1431020 Read pg. 644-645 and 648-650.   

Watch:

Watch one relatively recent episode of a fictional medical show (e.g., Gray’s Anatomy, New Amsterdam, The Resident, Chicago Med).

Assignments (due online)

  1. Group Project Check-in
  2. Respond to the DB questions under DB 8, Health and medicine in popular culture
  3. Respond to at least one other student’s post. Submit group project.
  4. Extra credit assignment