Charles Larson

Specialty:

• Persuasion
• Advertising
• Political Communication
• Research Methods
• Campaign Strategies

Profile:

Full Professor with 31 years at NIU.  Publications in all major national and regional journals.  Author of Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility through 9 editions.

Courses Taught:

• COMS 304

• COMS 370

• COMS 470

• COMS 491

• COMS 607

Publications

Persuasion: Reception & Responsibility.  8th edition.  9th is in press.

"Dramatism and Virtual Reality: Implications and Prediction" in Communication in Cyberspace by Strate and Jacobson.  Hampton Press, 1996.  pp. 95-100.

"Radio Secondary Oddity, The Search for Community and 'A Prairie Home Companion.'"  Journal of Radio Studies No. 3, pp. 88-105.

Selected Professional Activities

• Referee for Q. J. S., C. S. M. C., Western and Southern Journals of Communication.

• Immediate past president of the NIU Faculty Senate (3 years) and the NIU University Council.

• Consultant to Rochelle Community Hospital, Sycamore Library Board, and Blackberry Flowage, etc.

Human Interest Item

Hunting, fishing, camping, gardening, and singing choir and barbershop.