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Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

The voice is as individual as a fingerprint. It conveys not only linguistic content, but also emotional messages. In speaking professions such as teaching, the voice is exposed to high stress. A confident, flexible and healthy used voice generates attention and provides assertiveness, which is of importance for the success of teaching that should not be underestimated.

 

Topics:

Physical exercises, breathing technique, connection between body and voice, speech training, varied speaking, text composition, presentation technique, dealing with voice problems.

 

Workload for ECTS:

1 ECTS: active participation in the course dates, short lecture

2 ECTS: active participation in the course dates, follow-up through regular exercises, term paper of 5 – 7 pages or presentation of appropriate length.

 

Lecturer:

Dominik Heil is a teacher of music, philosophy and ethics at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Pforzheim. In cooperation with the Pforzheim Amateur Theater Association, he directs a musical group at the Kulturhaus Osterfeld.

After studying school music, he studied singing at the Mannheim Academy of Music. He continues to be active as a lieder and concert singer as well as a choir director and voice coach.