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Thesis Topic Ideation - Coggle Diagram
Thesis Topic Ideation
Social Equity
Accessible education
TOPIC
: Accessibility of college music degrees
QUESTION:
How does a student's socio-economic background impact their likelihood of pursuing a voice performance degree?
TOPIC:
Accessibility of voice lessons
QUESTION:
Can regular voice lessons in under-served communities help with student education and attendance?
Affordable healthcare
TOPIC:
Vocal health treatment
QUESTION
: How can you ethically work with singers that cannot afford vocal health medical care?
Economic Mobility
TOPIC:
Adjunct Voice teaching
QUESTION:
How does the lifestyle and work of adjunct voice professors impact their vocal health?
ALTERNATE
: their physical and emotional health?
Sex and Gender equity
TOPIC
: Prevelance of women over men as voice teachers
QUESTION
: What personality traits do people associate with voice teachers, and do they match certain stereotypes related to gender?
Racial equity
TOPIC
: Repertoire composed by people of color
QUESTION
: How can repertoire by composers of color be better incorporated into voice studios?
QUESTION
: How do student and teacher interact when teacher assigns a piece outside of their culture (that is part of student's culture)?
Disability Rights
TOPIC
: Impacts of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) on singing
QUESTION
: What unique obstacles may a student diagnosed with MS face in the voice studio?
Psychology
Personalities (Meyers Briggs, The Big Five, The Enneagram, Type A/Type B, introvert/extrovert)
TOPIC:
Personality traits and hypofunctional singing
QUESTION
: What personality traits are most often associated with hypofunctional singing? How can this inform our teaching?
Mental Health Disorders
TOPIC:
Student mental health in the voice studio
QUESTION
: How can teachers navigate voice teaching while keeping the mental states of their students (college age) in mind?
Mind-Body-Voice connection
TOPIC
: Athletes and singing
QUESTION
: How do atheletes' (dancers'?) perceptions of singing (body-mind-voice connection) impact their vocal quality?
REWORDED
: Do dancers perceive the voice as connected to body and self, and how do these perceptions manifest in their vocal quality?
ANOTHER
: How can we transfer the awareness of body in dancing into singing for dancers?
Percpetion (is this more acoustics..?)
TOPIC
:Moving music
QUESTION
what vocal qualities are present in performances that are moving?
Emotions
TOPIC
: Emotionally moving pieces
QUESTION
: In the most moving performances/pieces, what vocal qualities are present in MT performers?
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Physical Intelligence (PQ)
TOPIC
: Sensations in singing, noticing differences
Student-Teacher Relationship
Student empowerment
TOPIC
: Shyness
QUESTION
: How can teachers empower their shyer voice students? What methods/language are helpful?
Active listening
TOPIC
: Tracking student information, notes
QUESTION
: What system can teachers use to better track the details and lessons of each student?
Student Safety
TOPIC
: Play in the voice studio
QUESTION:
What can make students feel free to experiment, play, and make mistakes in the voice studio?
Young adults, college-age
TOPIC
: Mutual respect
QUESTION
: How do voice teachers balance respect, validation, and accountability between teacher and student?
Vocal Mechanics (S+F)
Effecient phonation
TOPIC
: SOVTs and MTD
QUESTION
: How do students diagnosed with MTD respond to narrowing/SOVTs in musical theater rep?
Structure of the larynx
TOPIC
: CT/TA muscle co-contraction
QUESTION
: How does student perception of chest/head registers match with CT/TA dominance?
Vocal fatigue/injury
TOPIC
: Student perception of vocal fatigue
QUESTION
: How do students' perception of vocal fatigue match/don't match with their vocal quality?