JRBC 2127 - CART and Captioning Technology and Procedures

3 Credit(s) 2 credits lecture/1 credit lab

This course provides an opportunity to perform hands-on captioning in a controlled lab environment. Students will work with industry-standard equipment and will caption many types of programming. Students will also learn how to write in various Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) venues, including on-site and remote. Students will write 15-minute segments of broadcast programming, including news, sports, and entertainment, with a goal of 98.5 percent realtime accuracy or higher. Students will write two 30-minute class lectures, meeting/seminar programs, or Web cast meeting segments with a goal of 98.5 percent verbatim accuracy, or higher, with variable speeds of 180-200 wpm. Students will learn captioning and CART technology, procedures, and research. Students will learn how to build different job dictionaries specific to the captioning environment. Students will refine their realtime writing, including resolving conflicts, writing with prefixes and suffixes, resolving word-boundary issues, learning four alphabets, and writing clean numbers. Students will write realtime verbatim tests starting at 120 wpm, with a goal of passing three tests at 180 wpm with 97 percent realtime verbatim accuracy.

Course Prerequisite(s): JRBC 2000