Electricity

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the  Architecture and Construction career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competencybased applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higherorder reasoning and problemsolving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupationspecific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the  Architecture and Construction career cluster.

The purpose of this program is to prepare students for employment or advanced training in a variety of construction  electrical industries. General Information

This program focuses on broad, transferable skills, stresses the understanding of all aspects of the electricity industry, and demonstrates such elements of the industry as planning, management, finance, technical and production skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues, and health, safety, and environmental issues.  This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of three occupational completion points.  The recommended sequence allows students to complete specified portions of a program for employment or to remain for advanced training.  A student who completes the applicable competencies at any occupational completion point may either continue with the training program or terminate as an occupational completer.  

Students are prepared to take the HVAC Excellence Employment Ready  Electrical certification exam.

While this program prepares students in electrical fundamentals, it does not meet the educational requirements for the journeyman's license.