Who is this man?
Instructor: Jerald Schutte
Office: SH 178B - Phone: x4049
Office Hours: Friday 6:00-7:00 pm, Sun 6:00-7:00 pm
Email: jschutte@csun.edu
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Who is this man?
Professor Schutte was born and raised in Eagle Rock, California, a suburb of Northeast Los Angeles. As point person for the post war baby boom, he attended Eagle Rock High School and the University of California at Los Angeles, where he earned undergraduate degrees in both Sociology and Psychology. He accepted an appointment to the University of Washington's Graduate Department of Sociology. However, due to illness in the family, he returned to Los Angeles to carry on his graduate studies in sociology at UCLA.
During his graduate tenure in sociology at UCLA, Mr. Schutte also completed the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in the mathematics department, earned an MBA in the business school, and participated as teaching assitant and part time lecturer in statistics. Since receiving his Ph.D. in social psychology from UCLA, Mr. Schutte has had appointments in the departments of sociology at UCLA, Stanford University and Columbia University in New York City.
He is currently Full Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Survey Research and Departmental Computing Laboratory at California State University, Northridge. In that capacity, Mr. Schutte has been active in the CSU as a Faculty Fellow to the California State Senate, principal investigator under the Academic Opportunity Fund program of the CSU's academic computing group, organizer of Syllabus sessions and is currently involved in virtual course offerings for the World Wide Web project on campus.
His teaching duties at CSUN include the undergraduate statistics and methods courses, the graduate methods, advanced statistics and survey research courses, and periodically the social psychology course. His research interests include the sociological relationship between technology and society and the application of the technology to univerisity teaching and research paradigms and has been widely cited as an innovator in teaching and testing the effectiveness of virtual technology in higher education.