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3.00 Credits
A study of the duties and responsibilities of on-site construction personnel. Major emphasis will be on the procedures, methods, and administration documentation system used by the construction contractor during construction and post construction phases of a project. Course will utilize construction administration computerized software.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the origin, development, philosophy, and legal bases of evidence, including a brief survey of the system of constitutional and procedural rules and standards affecting evidence collection and admissibility. Specific topics include evidence collection and preservation, the trial process, expert and lay opinion, scientific evidence, and confessions and admissions. The course requires a reseach paper.
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3.00 Credits
English Fundamentals is a course designed specifically for the study and for the improvement of basic writing skills and techniques. As such, English Fundamentals allows the student to master a variety of sentence constructions and paragraph types, culminating in the ability to create a multiparagraph essay. The emphasis is on grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, writing and revising techniques, and proofreading and editing to produce clear, concise, and information-rich sentences and paragraphs. This is a remedial/developmental course; it will not satisfy any graduation requirements. Student performance on the Comprehensive Language Usage Exam and the Writing Competency Exam will affect the final course grade.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
The student may contract for one to four credit hours of independent study through an arrangement with the instructor. The student must submit a plan acceptable for the instructor and the department chair. To be substituted for the listed humanities requirements, a directed study course must be so designated by the department chair. Writing is continued in assignments related to readings, class discussions, and lectures.
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6.00 Credits
This course is offered for students who have completed six hours in English and Humanities and who seek to improve their skills in technical writing.It is designed to give students a practical familiarity with effective communication skills on the job. Students will be encouraged to use experience and knowledge from their academic majors as sources of subject matter in written assignments.
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3.00 Credits
This course is offered for students completing requirements for a bachelor's degree. It will prepare students to handle typical workplace assignments in a competent and professional manner. It will also prepare students to effectively communicate their ideas in writing to persons in and out of their particular professional disciplines.
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4.00 Credits
Four class periods of 50 minutes each per week; one hour per day required in practice lab outside of class; two hours per day required for homework practice. Four credit hours. Continuation of teaching student how to write the spoken word with punctuation by means of a conflictfree, realtime-ready shorthand theory approved by NCRA and provide instantaneous translation. Includes the use of online computer-aided technology and teacher interaction. Live practice dictation for speed and accuracy. Read back and analysis of shorthand notes. Weekly speed test at incremental speeds on unfamiliar material. Required transcription timed under teacher supervision. Minimum speed of 50 words per minute on unfamiliar material with 95 percent accuracy. When this course serves as the prerequisite for another course, the student must receive a grade of "C" or better in this course.
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4.00 Credits
Four class periods of 50 minutes each per week; one hour per day required in practice lab outside of class; two hours per day required for homework practice. Four credit hours. Continuation of teaching student how to write the spoken word with punctuation by means of a conflict-free, realtime-ready shorthand theory approved by NCRA and provide instantaneous translation. Includes the use of online computer-aided technology and teacher interaction. Live practice dictation emphasizing building the skill and increasing speed. Read back and analysis of shorthand notes. Weekly speed test at incremental speeds on unfamiliar material. Required transcription timed under teacher supervision. Minimum speed of 90 words per minute on unfamiliar material with 95 percent accuracy. When this course serves as the prerequisite for another course, the student must receive a grade of "C" or better in this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course will be an extension of the material learned in the Computer Aided Transcription course ( CTRP 3373) and a direct application of the realtime techniques learned in the Realtime Writing Theory I course ( CTRP 1174). The topics to be covered will be include personal dictionaries; update area; D-Defines, J-Defines, and E-Defines, job dictionaries; power defines; phonetic tables; how to instert, modify, and delete entries; filtering your dictionary; printing your dictionary, backing up and restoring your dictionaries, and dictionary maintenance. The students will build and maintain their personal dictionary by adding new entries.
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3.00 Credits
The student will continue to learn to write, read, and transcribe the spoken word by means of a conflict-free, realtime-ready shorthand theory. The course is structured into 45 class periods. The typical structured classroom meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday throughout the semester. Each class requires a minimum of 3 hours of practice time per day. The course is designed for Internet training. The course suffices as a survey course to explore the two different modes of reporting: Judicial reporting and Broadcast Reporting. Students must be able to write five minutes of unfamiliar dictation in the following areas: 80 wpm on literary materials, 100 wpm on jury charge material, and 120 wpm on two-voice material. All speed takes must be transcribed with a minimum of 95 percent accuracy or higher. Students must also be able to write five minutes of literary material at 80 wpm with 96 percent accuracy or higher and write a 10 minute broadcast news program with an accuracy rate of 96 percent or better.
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