Dr. Koji Arizumi

Japanese Instructor, Director of the Critical Languages Center

Degree: Doctor of Musical Arts, The University of Alabama, 1995

Dissertation: Assimilation of Western and Japanese Musical Aesthetics and Contemporary Flute Music by Japanese Composers

Special Interests: Modern Japanese Literature and Film, Computer Assisted Foreign Language Teaching, Western Flute

Telephone: 205-348-5059

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Ms. Chika Kobayashi

Japanese Instructor

Degree: Master of Arts in Asian Civilization: Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, University of Iowa

Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language, Southeast Missouri State University

Special Interests: Listening to music, traveling (favorite trip was to Italy), plays piano, piccolo and accordion.

Mrs. Laurie Arizumi

Japanese Instructor, Japanese via Distance

Degree: Master of Musicology with an Emphasis in Ethnomusicology, The Florida State University

Certificates: TESOL, The Florida State University

Distance Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fulbright/Hays Scholar: Summer Japanese teaching program in the Japan Foundation, Urawa (Tokyo), Japan

Special Interests: Computer Assisted Foreign Language Teaching, Koto, Taiko, Celtic Harp, Jujutsu

Mr. Jonathan Brooks

Japanese Graduate Teaching Assistant

Degrees: B.S. in Mathematics, University of Alabama (May 2006)

Currently working on a Masters in History (East Asian history, specifically of China)

Jonathan learned Japanese through a combination of self-study and university classes (3 years at UA, 1 year of classical Japanese and Kambun at the University of Washington).

Special Interests: Japanese historical linguistics, dialects, Qing China, classical Japanese and Chinese

Hobbies: Reading, video games, football