Department:	Dept of Communication Northern Illinois University Dekalb, Illinois 60115
Home page:	http://www.niu.edu/comm/index.shtml
Chairperson or head:	Professor Gary Burns
Degrees offered:	Bachelors, Masters
Contacts:
Faculty: (click any name)	Andrews, Kyle Bisplinghoff, Gretchen Brookey, Robert A. Bryan, Ferald J. Burns, Gary Cady, Kathryn Caspersen, Randy Cassidy, Bill Chown, Jeffrey P. Cornish, Sabryna Gunkel, David Hamlet, Janice D. Hartlius, Johanna E. Henningsen, David D. Henningsen, Mary-Lynn Holt, G. R. Kim, Induk Lafrance, Betty Manning, Jimmie Miller, Robert Najjar, Orayb Scudder, Joseph Semati, Mehdi Seymour, Craig Valde, Kathleen Vasquez, Laura Whedbee, Karen Woodyard, Kerith
Areas of departmental research strength:	Broadcasting-And-Media, Cognition, Computer, Conflict, Ethics, Film, Gender, Health, Homosexuality, Interpersonal, Marriage-And-Intimacy, Methodology, Middle-East, Narrative, Nonverbal, Organizational, Persuasion, Politics-And-Government, Print-Journalism, Public-Speaking, Race-And-Ethnicity, Rhetoric, Science, Sexuality, Small-Group-Roles, Technologies, Television, Text-And-Writing, Theory, Visualization
Top 10 research department for:	Ethics, Film, Homosexuality, Middle-East, Narrative, Science, Sexuality, Text-And-Writing, Visualization

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