Steno Machine Writing - Associate Degree
Area of Study: Court Reporting Technologies
Degree/Certificate: Associate of Applied Business degree in Captioning and Court Reporting
Academic School: Business, Legal Professions and Hospitality
State of Ohio: Meets educational requirements
No new students will be accepted into the Associate Degree program after Aug. 22, 2025, for Academic Year 2025-2026. Current students should reach out to an academic counselor to create an academic plan to complete their remaining Captioning and Court Reporting courses.
Students interested in the Captioning and Court Reporting program, please see the Certificate of Proficiency in Captioning and Court Reporting – Steno Writing.
*Enrollment is Open for All Certificate Programs!*
What is Stenography?
Stenography (also known as machine writing) is the act of depressing the keys on a steno machine that is connected to a computer. Realtime stenography utilizes a software program that translates those steno keystrokes words into text on a computer screen. At Tri-C, steno students learn to use DigitalCat Computer-Access Realtime Translation software to accomplish this capturing of audio and presentation of those words into text.
Career Outlook:
Stenography or steno machine writing is the traditional and most typical method of court reporting. Steno machine writers work as judicial court reporters, CART (Computer-Access Realtime Translation) providers presenting the words of teachers and students in a classroom setting for deaf clients, broadcast captioners and transcriptionists.
About our Steno Program:
The National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) mandates that approved schools teach a realtime steno theory along with a variety of academic courses focused on court reporting work and document production, English grammar skills, legal, medical, and technical terminology, and proper legal procedure.
- Steno writing uses DigitalCat CAT software and a steno machine.
- Individuals can work in all areas of the country with steno machine skills.
- Steno students can take CCR classes online no matter where they live, across the country or across the globe!
- Steno machine writers can be employed as judicial court reporters, CART providers, captioners, scopists or transcriptionists.
- Steno students begin by taking Intro to Court Reporting, Realtime Theory I, II, and III. Beyond those four courses, all CCR students follow the same course sequences.