CRC 490 - Professional Portfolio

Credits: 3
Students engage in reflective learning in consultation with faculty, focusing on personal and career growth. Students integrate and synthesize learning competencies from across the degree program and demonstrate the ability to analyze individual professional leadership skills. Students will create a final professional portfolio documenting self-evaluation, needs analysis, goal-setting, career planning in realtime court reporting or captioning, and lifelong learning.

Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Analyze and assess individual professional leadership skills.
Create a narrative of learning, biographical snapshot, and personal narrative.
Identify educational and career goals.
Create a professional resume.
Document prior learning experience, if applicable.

Program Outcomes

Read, write, and understand a realtime theory.
Write unfamiliar two-voice and multi-voice testimony, literary, and jury charge, material.
Demonstrate the ability to write increased level of vocabulary, including legal and medical vocabulary.
Apply machine-writing skills on legal, medical, and technical terminology.
Demonstrate natural, smooth read back of shorthand notes.
Demonstrate correct spelling, punctuation, proofreading skills, and English in the production of typed material.
Demonstrate and apply knowledge of realtime technology through the production of transcripts and/or captions.
Build, maintain, and implement personal and job dictionaries for realtime translation.
Demonstrate knowledge of international, national, and local current events, geography, and cultural diversity issues.
Perform the role of professional reporter or captioner in simulated exercises and execute all required tasks.
Apply the NCRA Code of Professional Ethics in all writing activities.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.