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                  CRC 314 - Certification Preparation 1      Credits: 4 Prepares students for Washington State Certified Court Reporter examination and Registered Professional Reporter examination-Literary portion through mock CCR and RPR-LT examinations. Students continue to strengthen writing skills during multivoice dictation and practice the role of court reporter during mock depositions and mock trials. Students develop critical-thinking skills pertaining to court reporting situations.   
  Enrollment Requirement: Admission into BAS in Realtime Reporting: Court Reporting & Captioning program; concurrent enrollment in testimony, jury charge, and Certification Prep dictation courses; or instructor consent. 
  Course Fee: $25.00
  Course Outcomes:  Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:
	- Gain testing experience from taking mock CCR and RPR-LT examinations.
 
	- Demonstrate how to act as a court reporter during mock depositions and mock trials.
 
	- Demonstrate critical thinking skills pertaining to court reporting situations.
 
	- Develop skill in writing two-voice, multi-voice testimony, and literary and reading notes with practice on new and familiar material.
 
  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  
	- 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.
 
 
				  
  
			
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