Broadcast Captioning - Associate Degree

Broadcast Captioning

Associate of Applied Business

The Associate Degree in Broadcast Captioning serves students, employers and the deaf or hard-of-hearing community by providing quality captioners, training in a personalized Stenograph

environment, emphasizing ethics

and respect for the consumers needs, service to the community and advancement of the profession through practical application.

The curriculum is designed to provide students with a “hands-on” approach to gaining the skills and knowledge necessary to perform the function of a captioner provider while understanding the professional and ethical responsibilities of the position. Courses in Theory, Speed Building, Computer Aided Transcription, and Captioning train the students for a career in broadcast captioning and providing. General courses in Geography and Vocabulary serve to supplement the students’ education, therefore contributing to their overall knowledge base.

This program leads to a position as a Broadcast Captioner Provider. In this capacity, the students’ duties may include providing captions to the deaf or hard-of-hearing television audience, providing captions for high school or college students’ classes, and reporting seminars or meetings which take place via the Internet.

To graduate, the student must achieve a minimum grade of “C” in all CAP and STE classes.

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