Course 1: Version 1: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: connect voice, body, and movement as an expressive whole; act with physical and vocal freedom and expression, without tension; apply the International Phonetic Alphabet toward developing Standard American speech. Course 1: Version 2: Students will be able to: experience a greater freedom of expression (vocally and physically) and be able to apply this work to character development and text; explain the relationship between physical and emotional life and apply these discoveries to acting choices; develop confidence in physical instincts; discover vocal freedom and release of tension; learn and use vocal and physical warm-up; acquire increased awareness of personal, physical, and vocal habits to bring their instrument to a neutral state and make specific character choices. Course 2: Version 1: Students will be able to:use the International Phonetic Alphabet in the scoring of a piece of text; recognize and reproduce the hallmarks of Standard American speech. Course 2: Version 2: Students will be able to: experience an increased auditory awareness of their own speech as well as that of their peers; learn how articulators engage to produce each vowel, diphthong, and consonant; practice producing phonemes in words and phrases and employ concepts of sense stress and operative words in their own work on text; practice a basic set of warm-up exercises; demonstrate an awareness of Standard American Speech and a means of working toward the production of speech; employ a technique to apply speech to text through the use of the Operative Words and Sense Stress; explain the importance of vowels and consonants in speech; successfully apply phonetics to text and accent work; and understand the basic tools and understanding for learning accents.