The Court Reporting Program at College of Marin offers four stackable certificates designed for students interested in acquiring the skills necessary to secure employment as a verbatim reporter in our courts of law, pre-trial depositions, senate and congressional hearings, closed captioning and educational captioning.
The College of Marin Court Reporting Program is recognized by the Court Reporters Board of California. For information concerning the minimum requirements that a Court Reporting Program must meet in order to be recognized, contact The Court Reporters Board of California, 2535 Capitol Oaks Drive, Suite 230, Sacramento, CA 95833.
Phone: 916-263-3660
Students in the Court Reporting program will also earn transferable units if they opt to transfer to a four-year program to complete a bachelor’s degree of their choice.
Upon successful completion of the Scopist Certificate of Achievement, students will be able to:
• Demonstrate proficiency in basic English, grammar and punctuation, as well as legal terminology, court structure, basic legal procedures, basic civil law, basic criminal law, official court reporting procedures, deposition court reporting procedures, and court reporting ethics.
• Demonstrate proficiency in basic medical terminology, including terms relating to anatomy, physiology, and pharmaceutical drugs.
• Demonstrate proficiency in basic medical terminology, including terms relating to anatomy, physiology, and pharmaceutical drugs.
• Demonstrate proficiency using court reporting software to generate court and deposition transcripts.
College of Marin projects 10 -15 students will complete this certificate annually.
The new program in Court Reporting will offer four news stackable Certificates of Achievement and an A.S. degree in Court Reporting. The new certificates are as follows; Certificate of Achievement for Proofreading, Certificate of Achievement for Scopist, Certificate of Achievement for Communication Access Realtime Translation (C.A.R.T.). and Certificate of Achievement for CSR-Ready exam preparation.
Students in the Court Reporting program will also earn transferable units if they opt to transfer to a four-year program to complete a bachelor’s degree of their choice.
The Scopist Certificate is the second in the series of stackable certificates that will prepare students for successful completion of the CSR-Ready exam and the A.S. Degree in Court Reporting. . Please refer to the additional information section.
Successful completion of the Scopist Certificate will boost enrollment and create stackable certificates that prepare students for the CSR exam
1. Students in this new certificate program will learn current industry standards for the Scopist skills.
2. Students that successfully complete the Scopist Certificate will have completed the foundational skills of court and deposition transcript production while working towards the CSR-Ready Certificate, which prepares students to take the CSR Exam.
3. Students that successfully compete the Scopist Certificate will be better prepared for the CSR exam through the new stackable certificates with better course stepping to develop industry-wide technological skills.
4. Students that successfully complete of the Scopist Certificate will be able to seek employment working directly with deposition and court reporters.
5. Create a short two-semester certificate that provides students with necessary skills that are directly related to job-market needs.
Certificate Objectives -
The objectives for the Scopist Certificate are listed below:
The Certificate of Achievement, Scopist prepares students for entry-level occupations in the legal industry. There are no pre-requisites to enter this program. The following courses are the requirements which will help a student build upon to earn subsequent certificates including C.A.R.T and CSR exam preparation, if the student chooses to proceed further in the Court Reporting sector.
Course | Title | Units | Year/Semester (Y1 or S1) |
---|---|---|---|
COUR 110A | Theory Machine Shorthand 1 | 6 | S1 |
COUR 167 | Ethics for Court Report | 1 | S1 |
COUR 168A | Spelling and Vocabulary | 1 | S1 |
COUR 168B | Grammar for Court Reporting | 2 | S1 |
MEDA 165 | Medical Terminology 1 | 2 | S1 |
COUR 110B | Theory Machine Shorthand 2 | 4 | S2 |
COUR 100 | Skill Development 1 | 2 | S2 |
COUR 166 | Legal Terminology and CSR Law | 2 | S2 |
COUR 169A/B | Computer Aided Transcription | 2 | S2 |
MEDA 166 | Medical Terminology 2 | 2 | S2 |
Total | 24 |
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