Court Reporting
Overview
Court reporting programs prepare people to record and transcribe formal proceedings via print and electronic methods.Court reporting programs include topics such as:
- Real-time reporting
- Legal and medical terms
- Legal transcription
- Shorthand
- Verbatim recording
Schools
Many career and technical schools as well as most community colleges and two-year schools offer certificate and associate degree programs in court reporting. A certificate program usually takes a year of full-time study. An associate degree program usually takes two years of full-time study.
A very small number of colleges and universities offer a bachelor's degree in court reporting. A bachelor's degree usually takes four years of full-time study to complete.
See schools that offer this program.
Related Educational Programs
- Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
- Data Entry and Processing
- English Composition and Writing
- Legal Secretarial Studies
- Medical Transcription
- Paralegal Studies
Related Careers
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Program Admission
You can prepare for this program of study by getting your high school diploma or GED.
Below is a list of high school courses that will help prepare you for this program of study:
- English Grammar
- Introduction to Business
- Keyboarding
Typical Course Work
Program Courses
A certificate program in court reporting typically requires that you study courses such as the following:
- Computer Transcription and Technology
- Court Reporting Internship
- English for the Courtroom
- Introduction to Law
- Judicial Reporting Procedures
- Legal Word Processing and Terminology
- Machine Shorthand (225 wpm)
- Medical Terminology
- Modern Office Accounting
- Realtime Transcription
- Theory of Machine Shorthand
All training programs approved by the National Court Reporters Association include an internship.
Schools
King-Snohomish Area
Green River College
- Computer Reporting Technologies--Court Reporting
- Computer Reporting Technologies--Realtime Transcription
- Computer Reporting Technologies--Scopist/Text Editor
- Computer Reporting Technologies--Text Entry