CRC 361 - Captioning Practicum 2

1. Analyze and create dictionary entries specific to the captioning environment, to include fifteen hours of research and dictionary preparation.
2. Identify word boundary issues and how to resolve them.
3. Demonstrate accurate translation of numbers.
4. Set up and operate equipment necessary for on-site/remote realtime captioning.
5. Utilize resource materials to prepare for writing realtime.
6. Apply realtime writing skills at various speeds with emphasis on accuracy to include: 
   • Completion of 25 hours of writing time on campus, off-site, or remotely under the supervision of an institutional instructor or practicing captioner;
   • Submit an unedited realtime translation of two 30-minute segments on varied topics with variable speeds of 180-200 wpm with a goal of 96 percent accuracy or higher.

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

• 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.