Intermediate Carpentry

The Intermediate Carpentry Certificate of Achievement is designed to instruct students with hands on building skills and provide participation in all phases of the construction process, including traditional and new building technologies such as high performance building, sustainability and advanced manufacturing of homes. Carpentry students build new houses and/or remodel existing homes. Carpentry students can apply the Intermediate Carpentry Certificate as a portion of work experience needed when applying for a contractor’s license or gain specific skills for home improvement.

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This certificate is occupational as a means to achieve construction experience to gain employment. 

Item 1.            Program Goals and Objectives

 

Laney College currently offers a wide range of courses in Carpentry. The program prepares students for a career in the construction industry, either as self-employed carpenters, employees or as General Contractors. Our students are trained in basic construction and advanced practices and methods of construction. We do this by building and remodeling residential homes in the community in cooperation with the City of Oakland and the Oakland Rotary. We emphasize green, sustainable and high performance building. Elements of our program include best building practices in energy efficiency, weatherization and digital fabrication.

 

Program Outcomes

·        Communicate effectively in the technical language of the Carpentry/Construction Trades, including written, verbal and mathematical computation skills.

·        Develop a foundation of core skills necessary to safely operate power tools and equipment used to build, repair and remodel homes to current code requirements.

·        Analyze building components in order to determine the proper execution of construction or repair.

 

 

Item 2.            Catalog Description

 

The Intermediate Carpentry Certificate of Achievement is designed to instruct students with hands on building skills and provide participation in all phases of the construction process, including traditional and new building technologies such as high performance building, sustainability and advanced manufacturing of homes. Carpentry students build new houses and/or remodel existing homes. Carpentry students can apply the Intermediate Carpentry Certificate as a portion of work experience needed when applying for a contractor’s license or gain specific skills for home improvement.

 

Item 3.            Program Requirements

 

Requirements	Dept. Name/#	Name	Units	Laney GE	Sequence
Core Courses (11.5-12.5 units):	CARP 206		High Performance Building	3.5		Yr 1, Fall
	CARP 210		Foundation and Forms Construction	3.5		Yr 1, Fall
	CARP 221		Finish Carpentry	3.5		Yr 1, Fall
	CARP 223		CAL-OSHA 30-Hour Construction Industry Training for Carpentry	2		Yr 1, Fall
			or
	CARP 203	Construction Safety		1		Yr 1, Fall
Major Requirements				11.5-12.5
Total Units				11.5-12.5

 

 

Item 4.            Master Planning

 

Laney College currently offers a wide range of courses in Carpentry. The program prepares students for a career in the construction industry, either as self-employed carpenters, employees or as General Contractors. Our students are trained in basic construction and advanced practices and methods of construction. We do this by building and remodeling residential homes in the community in cooperation with the City of Oakland and the Oakland Rotary. We emphasize green, sustainable and high performance building. Elements of our program include best building practices in energy efficiency,weatherization and digital fabrication.

 

 

Item 5.            Enrollment and Completer Projections

 

The enrollment data for the courses included in the Intermediate Carpentry CA is shown in the table below. These are the numbers of grades (other than “W”) earned.  Only regular semesters (fall and spring) are taken into account. 

 

The data shows a robust growth in the number of students at Laney College who are in majors that require rigorous training in lower-division computer science courses. 

 

Enrollment Data – Number of Letter Grades (other than W)Earned

 

Course	F16 & S17	F17 & S18	F18 & S19
CARP 206--HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDING	10	13	18
CARP 210-- FOUNDATION AND FORMS CONSTRUCTION	15	20	18
CARP 221--FINISH CARPENTRY	36	46	51
CARP 223-- CAL-OSHA 30-HOUR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING FOR CARPENTRY	n/a	21	37
CARP 203-- CONSTRUCTION SAFETY	29	n/a	n/a

 

 

Item 6.            Place of Program in Curriculum/Similar Programs

 

a)     There are no active inventory records that need to be changed in connection with the approval of the proposed program.  

b)     This program does not replace any existing program on the college’s inventory. 

c)     There are no related programs offered by the college. Laney does offer a CA and AS in Advanced Carpentry.

 

 

Item 7.            Similar Programs at Other Colleges in Service Area

 

Laney is the only college in the district that offers carpentry curriculum.  Outside of our district, no other college in our service area offers a CA in Intermediate Carpentry. CCSF does have a Carpentry CA but only 2 courses are somewhat similar.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)

Requirements	Dept. Name/#	Name	Units	Laney GE	Sequence
Core Courses (11.5-12.5 units):	CARP 206		High Performance Building	3.5		Yr 1, Fall
	CARP 210		Foundation and Forms Construction	3.5		Yr 1, Fall
	CARP 221		Finish Carpentry	3.5		Yr 1, Fall
	CARP 223		CAL-OSHA 30-Hour Construction Industry Training for Carpentry	2		Yr 1, Fall
			or
	CARP 203	Construction Safety		1		Yr 1, Fall
Major Requirements				11.5-12.5
Total Units				11.5-12.5

This certificate was created to facilitate capturing students as completers. It is step two of our stackable program.

CCSF CA: Joe Gumina, Dept Chair, automotive@ccsf.edu; as of 9/12/19 no reply