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Dr. Wesley Shumar

Wesley Shumar, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Office:    PSA, 215
Phone:   (215) 895-2060
E-Mail:   shumarw@drexel.edu
WebPage:

Area of Interest:

Higher education, virtual community, ethnographic evaluation in education, the semiotics of mass culture, and the self in relation to contemporary personal and political issues of identity and globalization.

He is also an ethnographic evaluator for the Math Forum, a virtual math education resource center. Dr. Shumar is author of College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education, Falmer Press, 1997 and co-editor of Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, published by Cambridge University Press.

 

Courses Usually Taught

* Anth 101 - Cultural Diversity
* Anth 210 - Worldview: Science, Religion, Magic
* Anth 310 - Societies in Transition
* Anth 410 - Cultural Theory
* New Course - Media Anthropology
* Soc 270 - Participatory Sociological Theory
* Soc 335 - Sociology of Education and Literacy

 Modified: Wednesday June 14 2006