Recent SemestersSpring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022Class Size32–40 studentsCredits2PrerequisiteNone Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionThis course provides instruction for the health care provider in the area of team membership. The instructor introduces the students to styles of communication, human needs, individual differences, and cultural biases. The course familiarizes students with the behavior, needs, and methods of communication required by different groups of patients, including children, youth, elderly, as well as those suffering from violence, homelessness, life altering illness or injury, chemical dependency, anger or depression, and those who are dying. 