Alexander Blonna
Location: Distance Education
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Mr. Blonna earned his B.A. in social Science from Montclair State College, and continued to earn an M.A. in political science and a second M.A. in English, both from California State University at Chico. He has taught at Butte Community College, King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Central Texas College, and in the PACE program aboard several different U.S. Navy vessels. In addition, Mr. Blonna has taught at the secondary level and has a variety of experience in health center administration. He joined the Asian Division faculty in 1992, teaching initially in Korea, and subsequently for eight years in Okinawa. One of UMUC's most experienced faculty members in Distance Education, he has taught continuously in that program since 1996.
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Daniel Broudy
Location: Okinawa
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Dr. Broudy holds a B.S. in English writing from Slippery Rock University with emphases in composition and rhetoric. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Army and served in the Republic of Panama. His second Army assignment was at Fort Huachuca, Arizona where he developed training strategies and manuals for UAV and JSTARS imagery systems, and began work on an M.A. in English with Norwich University. Subsequent assignments took him to the Korean Analysis Center in Seoul and then to NPIC in Washington, D.C. where he tested emerging digital imagery technologies. Dr. Broudy left active duty in the fall of 1994 to join the UMUC faculty, teaching for a year at Kunsan Air Base in Korea. Since then he has been teaching throughout Okinawa. His doctorate is in applied psycholinguistics from Deakin University in Australia, and his research interests lie in sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, rhetoric, communication theory, developmental psychology, and epistemology.
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