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Students from the UCO Mass Communication Department’s Health Communication and Promotion course visited with professionals around the Oklahoma City metro to learn about the field of health and safety communication.
Students participating in the fall intersession course spent class time exploring health communication case studies, theory, and campaign planning. However, the highlights of the course proved to be the site visits, which provided students with the opportunity to visit the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic, the UCO Center for Counseling and Wellbeing, the YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City Mitch Park location, and the Edmond Fire Department and Children’s Safety Village.
Professional health and safety communicators gave tours at these sites and discussed best practices and career paths in the field. They all invited students to network with them and ask questions in the future.
“I am so thankful to have been able to visit all of these sites throughout this two-week course,” said Mireya Paramo, a strategic communication senior. “I never thought that they would all be as impactful as they were.”
“We greatly appreciated talking with the class,” said Jesse Benne of the Edmond Fire Department, who specializes in fire prevention. “It was an absolute pleasure connecting with your group to share fire safety and communication.”
Professionals who met with students included Angie Reeves, Rachael Maltby, and Jocelyn McCray from the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic; Taylor Shelton from the UCO Center for Counseling and Wellbeing; Christin King, Makayla Mainord, and Corey Cargill from the YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City; and Jesse Benne and Jacob Stangl from the Edmond Fire Department.
King and Cargill both graduated from the UCO strategic communication program.
Students in the class included strategic communication seniors Isabel Baker, Maddie Curtis, Sarah Hamilton, Promise Hill, Brianna Jones, Emad Khan, Jennifer Meadows, Reese Merriman, Joshua Nelson, Mireya Paramo, Garrett Scott and Makayla Seeney.
Dr. Megan Cox, assistant professor of strategic communication, was the instructor for the course.
Learn more about the UCO Department of Mass Communication.
For more information about UCO’s health communication course, contact Dr. Megan Cox, mcox18@uco.edu.
All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed my experience at the YWCA. I felt like I got to directly jump in and make a difference in my community. I was able to experience and observe first-hand what I want to do with my career in the future, and I was also exposed to some disheartening flaws that our criminal justice system has. I hope to eventually be in a position that allows me to bring awareness to these issues, and if I’m lucky, actually make a change within our system. Although my internship has come to an end, I certainly do not see myself walking away from this organization. I plan to remain a volunteer sexual assault advocate indefinitely, and when my career allows, become a SANE nurse with this same organization.
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