(1) The program shall include classroom lecture or non-lecture instruction in the mastery of making verbatim records of depositions, hearings, meetings, conventions and judicial proceedings, by means of machine shorthand writing or voice writing, and the accurate transcription of such proceedings.

(2) Tests used to qualify students to sit for the CSR exam shall be transcribed under direct supervision. Schools may require all other tests to be transcribed under supervision.

(3) When the machine shorthand student reaches a proficiency of 80 words per minute on unfamiliar material, the student shall be required to transcribe dictation from stenographic notes of varying difficulty (for the purposes of this subsection, “varying difficulty” shall mean content containing changing or differing degrees of complexity of vocabulary) and subject matter of a length equal to five minutes. When the voice writing student reaches a proficiency of 120 words per minute on unfamiliar material, the student shall be required to transcribe dictation from voice notes of varying difficulty and subject matter of a length equal to five minutes.

(4) Individual dictation classes, other than theory classes, shall include only students whose tested reporting speeds are within the same 20-30 words per minute range on similar dictation material.

(5) Students shall be provided the opportunity to read back from their stenographic or voice notes a minimum of one time each day.

(6) Schools shall provide students with the opportunity to practice with school-approved speed-building material a minimum of one hour per day after school hours.

(7) These hours may be reduced if a student is able to pass the qualifier exam defined in section 2412 of this chapter before having completed these hours.

(8) When the voice writing student reaches a proficiency of reporting 200 words per minute on unfamiliar material, the student will be tested to determine that they cannot be heard from a distance of two feet away from where the student is reporting.

(1) Legal Terminology.

The general concepts of the law of real and personal property, torts, contracts, probate, family, business, criminal, evidence, and civil procedure.

(2) Court and Deposition Procedures.

(3) Ethics of the Court Reporting Profession.

The professional responsibilities of a reporter, including, but not limited to, those outlined in the Professional Standards of Practice.

(4) The California law and regulations and California Rules of Court affecting Certified Shorthand Reporters.

(1) Instruction in the current methods for preparing and producing a complete transcript, including, but not limited to, equipment and formatting standards.

(2) Instruction in the preparation of transcripts, including covers, appearance pages, index pages, speaker identification, certificates, and exhibits, and the preparation of work sheets.

(3) Development of proofreading skills in order to produce an accurate, verbatim transcript.

(1) Before the student attains a proficiency of 120 words per minute, the student shall observe a minimum of five hours of proceedings in a court of record.

After attaining a proficiency of 120 words per minute and before attaining a proficiency of 180 words per minute, the student shall observe a minimum of five hours of proceedings in a court of record.

(2) When the student reaches a proficiency of 180 words per minute, the student shall sit in and report with a certified shorthand reporter 40 hours of court proceedings or depositions of which a minimum of 10 hours shall be in depositions and a minimum of 10 hours shall be in court.

A maximum of 10 hours of this training may be gained in reporting mock proceedings sponsored by a law firm or by a law school.

(3) The student shall be required to transcribe and submit to the school for approval a minimum of 20 consecutive pages from stenographic or voice notes taken at a court proceeding and a minimum of 20 consecutive pages from stenographic or voice notes taken at a deposition in compliance with the Minimum Transcript Format Standards.

(4) After attaining a speed of 160 words per minute, the student shall receive a minimum of 10 hours additional instruction to review the following categories:

(5) Schools shall document that they provide students with the opportunity to interact with professional court reporters at least four times per calendar year, to offer mentoring, counseling, guest speakers, job shadowing, etc.

(1) The student shall demonstrate knowledge of basic computer terminology and the ability to manage the computer operating system outside the specialized Computer Aided Transcription (CAT) software, including, but not limited to, functions such as deleting, moving, and renaming files, and creating electronic files.

(2) The student shall demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of litigation support, Web streaming, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), Best Practices for the use of Backup Audio Media (BAM), and captioning.

(3) The student shall demonstrate the ability to produce a transcript from the student's own stenographic or voice notes in compliance with the Minimum Transcript Format Standards.

(4) The student shall spend a minimum of 10 hours in realtime writing.

The student shall also demonstrate the ability to set up and connect the components to provide interactive realtime. Interactive realtime is defined as the student outputting to a second computer.

(5) The student shall demonstrate knowledge of how to prepare an electronic file from the student's own stenographic or voice notes.

(1) Current reference materials shall include at a minimum: Business & Professions Code, Sections 8000 through 8051; Title 16, California Code of Regulations, Division 24, Sections 2400 through 2481; Code of Civil Procedure, Sections 2021 and 2025; Government Code, Chapter 5, Article 9, commencing with section 69941; and California Rules of Court.

(2) Current reference materials shall include at a minimum: California Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Evidence Code, Government Code, Penal Code, Welfare and Institutions Code, Health and Safety Code, Probate Code, Family Code and Labor Code; a world atlas, a world almanac, a local street atlas, standard and specialty dictionaries, drug manufacturer reference, and directory of attorneys.

In addition, the Board recommends that the school also maintains current professional association publications and current publications including at least one daily newspaper and magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Money, Inc., Fortune, etc.