Graduate Certificate in Voice Studies (GC-VOICEST) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

Students completing this course will:

• have developed skills in the practice of using the voice, language and text in preparation for rehearsal and production in school and community settings or for their own professional development;
• have critically examined, learned and practised a range of approaches suitable for working with the voice and speech in a variety of specialist environments;
• have learned, practised and implemented vocal pedagogical skills;
• have a sound understanding of their own voice and speech;
• have developed an approach to working with the relationship between voice, speech and text.

Generic skills

On completion of this course students will have:
• a capacity for self-directed learning and the motivation for continued skills and professional development in voice;
• an advanced level of oral and written communication;
• a capacity to manage competing demands on time;
• an appreciation of the team approach to learning in complex areas;
• a capacity to participate fully in collaborative learning and to confront unfamiliar problems;
• initiated and implemented a constructive change to the knowledge and skills base in voice within their communities, including professions and workplaces;
• an advanced understanding of the underpinning knowledge in voice skills;
• an ability to develop creative and imaginative vocal techniques which promote safe healthy practices;
• an ability to promote evidence-based practice in the implementation of a voice program;
• excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills, including an awareness of personal strengths and limitations;
• an ability for critical and creative thinking, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning;
• an advanced knowledge of voice techniques.

Graduate attributes