The Advanced 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 for the Advanced Carpentry certificate or the Carpentry A.S degree as a portion of work experience needed when applying for a contractor’s license or gain specific skills for home improvement.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

- 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

- the proper execution of construction or repair.

Careers Opportunities:

Jobs as journey level carpenters, home re-modelers and general contractors.