Voice and Diction II - CST 112 at Brightpoint Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu/colleges/brightpoint/courses/CST112-VoiceandDictionII
Effective: 2025-05-01
Course Description
Continued improvement of pronunciation, articulation, and voice quality with a focus toward applying these skills to text. Includes applied phonetics and dialect work. Part II of II.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
Enables students to continue improving pronunciation, articulation, and voice quality.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisite: CST 111
Course Objectives
- General Learning Outcomes
- Critical Thinking
- Analyze their vocal barriers and justify the use of particular strategies and habits that can address vocal issues
- Professional Readiness
- Compare and contrast vocal strategies as applied in different modalities and industries.
- Course Outcomes
- Stage Expression
- Identify barriers to effective vocal stage expression for actors and propose solutions or interventions to manage barriers
- Vocalics
- Examine elements of vocalics (e.g. articulation, rate, pitch, inflection, volume) aimed at producing intelligible speech for the stage
- Vocal Technique
- Propose the benefits and detriments of a foundational vocal technique in order to maintain vocal expression and/or resolve vocal expression problems throughout a stage career
- Vocal projection and endurance
- Consistently release tension, connect breath, voice, and body at the level of sensory and emotional awareness and employ vocal projection and endurance
- Vocal variety
- Discover and appraise vocal variety in dramatic and non-dramatic texts
- Professional Performance
- Design strategies and habits that support care for the voice as a professional performance tool, which includes taking responsibility for practicing vocal technique beyond the classroom and developing professional discipline
Major Topics to be Included
- Breath and Voice:
- Awareness and freedom of breath
- Vocal anatomy/Diaphragmatic breathing
- Channeling sound to increase vocal projection
- Discovering resonators
- Speech and Diction:
- From voice to speech: Turning sound into language
- Consonants and vowels
- Diphthongs
- Language and Text:
- Linking language to text
- Scoring a text
- IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet/American Standard speech
- Possible approaches:
- Berry
- Fitzmaurice
- Lessac
- Linklater
- Rodenberg