COM HLT 484Risk Communications
Community Health Sciences · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
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.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 200A, 200B, 200C, or prior public health and behavioral sciences courses.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM HLT 484
- COM HLT 200ACommunity Health Sciences
- COM HLT 200BProgram Planning, Research, and Evaluation in Community Health Sciences
- COM HLT 200CProgram Planning, Research, and Evaluation in Community Health Sciences
- COM HLT 200BProgram Planning, Research, and Evaluation in Community Health Sciencesanother path to it
- BIOSTAT 201BIntroduction to Biostatistics
- BIOSTAT 201AIntroduction to Biostatistics
- EPIDEM 201Introduction to Epidemiology
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 9 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.