First Year Seminar 191PHHS14 - FYS-U-Thrive: SPHHS

This seminar will support your transition to college and introduce you to a topic in public health and health sciences. The first six weeks will provide foundational skills for students to thrive at UMass. The last seven weeks will focus on exploring a public health and health sciences topic.

First-year (R1ST) Course Subtitle: Misinformation and Health Literacy

How do we sort fact from fiction in health claims we see online and in advertisements? What makes people vulnerable to extreme or unproven cures? Using examples of famous health scams, hoaxes, and misinformation campaigns in history, the class will work together to build a critical thinking toolkit for interrogating health information in the digital present.

See the SPHHS FYS Course Guide for a complete list of section subtitles and descriptions:

https://www.umass.edu/public-health-sciences/academics/first-year-semin…