CST 112 - Voice and Diction II at John Tyler Community College
Course Description
Effective: 2019-08-01
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
General Course Purpose
Helps the student to assess personal voice and diction patterns and provides structured class experiences to facilitate improvement. Emphasis is on non-clinical speech concerns.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisite: CST 111
Course Objectives
- Demonstrate critical and objective listening skills.
- Explain the vocal process.
- Speak with a more pleasant-sounding voice in terms of pitch, volume, quality and rate.
- Demonstrate mastery of the phonetic alphabet.
- Demonstrate mastery of dialect and accent
- Demonstrate mastery of correct breath support for speaking.
- Demonstrate improved articulation, enunciation and pronunciation.
- Demonstrate mastery of various dialects.
- Apply speaking techniques to a variety of texts
Major Topics to be Included
- International Phonetic Alphabet
- Physiology of speech production
- Pronunciation and enunciation
- Volume, pitch, rate, tone, emphasis, stress
- Individual speech pattern analysis
- Accents, regionalisms, dialects
- Exploration of spoken poetry, verse, narrative and theatrical texts