Department:	School of Communication Studies Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701
Home page:	http://www.coms.ohiou.edu/
Chairperson or head:	Professor Dr. Claudia Hale
Degrees offered:	Bachelors, Masters, Doctorate
Contacts:
Faculty:	Aden, Roger C. Babrow, Austin Bates, Benjamin R. Beck, Christina S. Benoit, William Black, Laura Bute, Jennifer Chawla, Devika Daniels, Tom D. Graham, Elizabeth E. Hale, Claudia L. Harter, Lynn M. James, Anita C. Ledbetter, Andrew Lee, Judith Y. Mckerrow, Raymie Miller, Jerry L. Rawlins, William Shoham, Mirit Smith, John W. Titsworth, Scott West, Daniel
Areas of departmental research strength:	Advertising, African-American-Issues-And-Civil-Rights, Aging, Agreement, Asia, Broadcasting-And-Media, Children, China, Classical-Rhetoric, Cognition, Competence, Computer, Conflict, Conversation, Critical-Theory, Debate, Democracy, Drugs, Education, Family, Film, Gender, Health, Humor, Interpersonal, Language, Law, Marriage-And-Intimacy, Memory, Metaphor, Methodology, Narrative, News, Nonverbal, Organizational, Pacific-Rim, Personality-And-Psychology, Persuasion, Political-Elections, Politics-And-Government, Popular-Culture, Presidential-Figures, Print-Journalism, Public-Opinion, Public-Relations, Public-Speaking, Race-And-Ethnicity, Rhetoric, Semiotic-Theory, Similarity, Small-Group-Roles, Social-Structure, Sports, Technologies, Television, Text-And-Writing, Theory, Visualization
Top 10 research department for:	Advertising, African-American-Issues-And-Civil-Rights, Aging, Agreement, Asia, Children, China, Classical-Rhetoric, Competence, Conversation, Critical-Theory, Debate, Democracy, Drugs, Film, Gender, Health, Humor, Interpersonal, Language, Law, Memory, Metaphor, Narrative, Pacific-Rim, Persuasion, Political-Elections, Politics-And-Government, Popular-Culture, Presidential-Figures, Public-Opinion, Public-Relations, Public-Speaking, Rhetoric, Semiotic-Theory, Similarity, Social-Structure, Sports, Text-And-Writing, Theory, Visualization

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