Court Reporting Technology - Cart, AAS

The Court Reporting Technology program includes a basic core of courses designed to prepare a student for entry-level employment as a CART (computer-aided realtime technology) provider.

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* Students who lack entry level skills in math, English, science, etc., will be provided related studies.

** Students enrolled in the program of study for over 36 consecutive months will be required to complete any new courses under curriculum revision in order to obtain degree in order to maintain current market skills.

National Court Reporters Association minimum requirements must be met including but not limited to:

1. minimum machine shorthand speed on three 5-minute tests with 97% realtime accuracy: 180 wpm literary.
2. produce an unedited realtime translation of 1 hour of CART services for educational purposes.
3. write a narrative report summarizing the internship experience including such things as a diary, new terminology encountered, new experiences, and activities/processes observed.
4. minimum computer keyboarding speed on two 5-minute timed writings: 60 wpm with a maximum of five errors.
5. internship to include a minimum of 66 hours of actual writing time.

**Additional Graduation Requirement: Any student (first-time, transfer, and part-time) who begins at Hinds Fall 2007 and later will be required to take LLS 1312/RST 1312/RSV 1312 - Orientation course in order to graduate from the College. Exception: Orientation credit (1-3 hrs) transferred to Hinds from another college will satisfy our orientation requirement.

A CPAS exam is required to graduate from this program.