Description: This certificate teaches students the basic, theory, and application of the spoken word to real time, instantaneous translation used for television broadcast captioning. The program also includes courses designed to teach students the necessary research skills in preparing captioning for news, weather, sports, and a variety of television shows.

Description: These courses, in sequence, introduce students to the basic conflict-free theory for writing on the stenotype machine to speed building of literary, testing, and jury charge material with emphasis on accurate transcription. Students will build speed to 120 wpm on testimony, 110 wpm on jury charge, and 90 wpm on literary with a prerequisite typing speed of 30 wpm.

Description: This series of courses introduces students to the criminal justice system and the study of criminal, common, and statutory law within the context of enforcement. This series concludes with investigation, including specific crimes against persons and property, the process of fact-gathering and problems of legally admissible proof.

Description: This certificate program prepares students for licensure as a funeral director and entry-level employment in a funeral establishment in several states. Funeral Directing curriculum focuses on the implications of grief and bereavement and the role of funeral director in counseling the bereaved. Areas of concentration include the social role of the funeral director in the dynamics of grief, and an investigation into the changing attitudes toward death.

Description: The Hospitality Studies Program prepares students for entry into careers in the areas of hotel and restaurant management. A.A.S. degree and two certificates of proficiency tracks offered. Students learn key areas of cost control, supervision, and hospitality law. Hotel Management track includes front office management, guest services, and facility management. Restaurant Management track includes bar and beverage management, food preparation, and guest service management.

Description: This course teaches students the meaning of legal and Latin terms, and covers instruction in civil and criminal law, the judicial system (including discovery, trial, and appellate processes), the legislative process, hearings, and arbitrations, research, and citations, and the notary public law.

Description: This course is designed to familiarize students with root words, prefixes, and suffixes used to describe the systems of the body in normal and abnormal conditions. Emphasis is placed on the formation, definition, and pronunciation of the words used in the practice of medicine.

Description: This physical science course introduces the reasons why we have weather and the forces which create specific weather patterns and phenomena. Topics range from global wind and radiation patterns on the macroscale, to thunderstorms and tornadoes on the microscale. Students regularly participate in weather forecasting using daily public weather information. This course has been used to assist with certificates in the field of Naturalist, skills based on requirements with the U.S. Navy, and certificate renewal for high school science teachers.