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
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
Web Development for Online Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese
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, Sweep Rowing, Aikido