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 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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