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Court Reporting

The Court Reporting Department provides students with the skills and knowledge to succeed in a quality career and supplies the community with qualified court reporters, deposition reporters, and captioning professionals. In the program, students learn a variety of skills that boost their competency levels, challenge their skill development, and teach them the tools of motivation and self-discipline, all of which can serve them through the many challenging careers that are available in this field. Degrees in court reporting qualify students to work in many different positions, such as Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR), Official Court Reporter, Freelance Reporter, State Hearing Reporter, Broadcast Captioner, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) Reporter, and Webcasting Reporting. The overall focus of the department is to provide the proper environment, academic instruction, skill development, and dictation practice that will enable students to achieve their desired career goals or certification.

The department offers three major areas of study: court reporting, machine stenography, and computer-aided transcription (CAT). Classes for this department are offered mainly during the day but will also soon be offered online for the students' convenience. The major offers a bachelor of science degree, an associate in arts degree, an associate in science degree, and also a certificate program. Appropriate speed and accuracy levels are required for the completion of all courses of study.

The Court Reporting Department faculty is a dedicated group of individuals who genuinely care about helping students achieve their goals, and work diligently to stay current in their constantly evolving fields. The faculty consists of a department chair, a full-time instructor, and a number of adjunct instructors and readers. To ensure satisfactory progress for students, the College also offers an extensive audio-video tape library and transcription and realtime computer lab facilities to encourage students to continue to develop their skills outside of class sessions.

The Department offers the following degrees:

View course descriptions for the Court Reporting Department in our Humphreys College online catalog.

Contact an Admission Counselor for more information on the programs offered or to register for classes.

* Humphreys College is a member of the Reporting Association of Public Schools (RAPS). RAPS is an organization that seeks to initiate, sponsor, promote, and execute policies and activities that further the profession of court reporting and court reporting training at public schools throughout California.

A nice web site that provides RSS feeds to court reporting articles, maintained by Todd Olivas and Associates

Kay Reindl is the Department Chair of the Court Reporting Department. She has been an instructor in the department since 1989.
Bruce Bodine has been an instructor in the Court Reporting Department since 1994. He served as the Department Chair from 1997-2007.
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