Associate in Applied Science Code: 5651
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Do you think court reporting would be an exciting and rewarding career? It is! Court reporters play a vital and valued role in courtrooms, depositions, and other legal proceedings. It’s an exciting, demanding, and rewarding career. The Court Reporting Technology program at Black Hawk College prepares individuals for successful careers as professional judicial reporters, broadcast captioners, and computer-aided realtime transcriptionists (CART). Broadcast captioning displays the audio portion of a television program as text on the television screen, providing a critical link to news, entertainment, and information for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Computer Aided Realtime Transcription (CART) is a method to provide access to spoken communication for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who have certain cognitive or learning impairments. Graduates of our Associate in Applied Science in Court Reporting
Technology degree will be prepared to transcribe and create complete and accurate legal records while taking advantage of exciting internship opportunities.
Court reporting degree-seeking students obtain experience with realtime reporting techniques and technology during their core courses. Every court reporting degree student at Black Hawk College completes a supervised internship which provides an exciting opportunity for students to try potential career options before graduation. At the completion of the program, students are prepared to pass the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR) and the national Registered Professional Reporter (RPR) exams. Interested students are encouraged to contact an advisor or faculty member for more information.
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