CARP 113 - Foundations and Floor Framing

1. Locate and layout the location of a basic house foundation.
2. Form a basic single lift foundation for a residential home.
3. Read and interpret floor framing prints.
4. Frame a wooden floor system to accepted practices.
5. Interpret and apply building code requirements for both foundation and floor framing.
6. Use correctly and safely all hand and power tools related to foundations and floor framing.
7. Comply with all OSHA/WISHA construction safety standards.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Frame the wooden structure for a basic single-story home.
5. Form and pour typical concrete slabs.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 114 - Wall and Roof Framing

1. Read and interpret wall and roof framing plans.
2. Read, interpret and apply shear wall schedule specification.
3. Frame a basic residential home exterior and interior walls.
4. Frame a typical wooden roof using engineered trusses.
5. Interpret and apply building code requirements for both wall and roof framing.
6. Use correctly and safely all hand and power tools related to wall and roof framing.
7. Comply with all OSHA/WISHA Construction safety standards.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Form and pour a typical foundation for a basic home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 115 - Exterior and Interior Finish

1. Install siding, trim and related components correctly and efficiently. 
2. Install drywall and accessories to accepted practices.
3. Install exterior doors and windows to accepted practices and principle.
4. Install interior doors to accepted practice and principles.
5. Install standing and running trim.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Install all basic interior trim components for a home.
5. Install all basic exterior trim components for a home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 161 - Print Reading

1. Interpret all lines, symbols, dimensions on prints.
2. Locate critical load bearing points on prints.
3. Determine correct building materials based on prints.
4. Read and interpret Shear Wall schedules.
5. Interpret sectional views, and detail views on prints.  

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Read and interpret basic architectural residential prints
4. Estimate materials and supplies to build a basic single story residential home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 162 - Stair Design and Construction

1. Determine total rise, unit run, total run, stringer pitch and length, and stairwell opening.
2. Build a set of straight-run stairs that meet or exceed building code requirements. 

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Calculate, layout and install basic stairs and components.
5. Estimate materials and supplies to build a basic single story residential home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 163 - Rafters Design and Framing Level 1

1. Determine lengths of common, valley, hips and jack rafters using rafter tables, and construction master calculator to within 1/16 of an inch.
2. Calculate stud and plate lengths and construct a rake wall within 1/8 of an inch tolerance.
3. Calculate and over frame a blind valley rafter system over the existing roof to within 1/8 of an inch.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Calculate, install and sheath typical stick-framed roof structures.
5. Estimate materials and supplies to build a basic single story residential home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 164 - Intermediate Woodworking and Cabinetry

1. Identify and evaluate materials, construction methods and overall quality of modular or “off the shelf” type cabinetry as well as “Custom” cabinetry.
2. Determine quality of drawer, door and convenience hardware.
3. Design a usable shop drawing, estimate the project, and generate a cut list for a built-in Media Center based on a “concept sketch.”
4. Operate power tools and stationary machinery safely and correctly.
5. Machine all basic woodworking joints using stationary machinery and portable woodworking tools.
6. Construct a lower and upper kitchen cabinet correctly and accurately.
7. Construct a basic drawer box and overlay drawer front.
8. Construct an overlay, recessed panel cabinet door and install it using European style Hinges on either a face frame or frameless cabinet box.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Build a basic kitchen base cabinet to within 1/32” of all given dimensions
5. Estimate materials and supplies to build a basic single story residential home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 165 - Residential Remodeling Practices

1. Determine a sequence of construction/demolition for a given project based on a set of approved drawings.
2. Tie into an existing foundation and building framework that meets IRC or engineer specifications based on a set of approved drawings.
3. Layout and connect a basic supply and waste line for plumbing.
4. Add a new 110 volt branch circuit for lighting and outlets.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the process for obtaining a remodeling building permit using King County Building department bulletins.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Form and pour a typical foundation for a basic home.
5. Frame the wooden structure for a basic single-story home.
6. Install all basic interior trim components for a home.
7. Install all basic exterior trim components for a home.
8. Read and interpret basic architectural residential prints
9. Calculate, layout and install basic stairs and components.
10. Calculate, install and sheath typical stick-framed roof structures.
11. Build a basic kitchen base cabinet to within 1/32” of all given dimensions
12. Form and pour typical concrete slabs.
13. Estimate materials and supplies to build a basic single story residential home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 166 - Deck Construction and Concrete Flatwork

1. Identify and evaluate materials, construction methods and building code requirements for decks and flatwork.
2. Operate power tools and hand tools in the building of decks and concrete flatwork.
3. Properly attach and frame a ground or above ground deck to specifications and code requirements based on an approved drawing.
4. Install handrails, guardrails, stairs and other deck accessories to specifications and/or building code requirement based on an approved drawing.
5. Properly excavate, prepare sub-strate, install forms, pour and finish a concrete driveway, sidewalk and or patio based on an approved drawing.
6. Use proper tools and techniques to apply a variety of concrete finishes.
7. Estimate material and cost for a deck and a concrete flatwork project based on a set of drawings.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Read and interpret basic architectural residential prints
5. Calculate, layout and install basic stairs and components.
6. Form and pour typical concrete slabs.
7. Estimate materials and supplies to build a basic single story residential home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 167 - Material Estimating

1. Determine the amount and cost of all the materials to build a home based on residential prints. 
2. Collect data for sub-contracted prices based on residential prints.
3. Combine both sub-contracted bids and their own material estimating costs and derive at an estimated cost to build the house.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Read and interpret basic architectural residential prints
4. Estimate materials and supplies to build a basic single story residential home.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 168 - Green Construction Principles and Practices

1. Discuss environmental and economic impacts of Green Building Principles.
2. Discuss basic Building Science Principles.
3. Describe Advanced Framing Principles.
4. Describe efficient ways to generate and save energy.
5. Discuss Thermal Dynamics within a Home or Building.
6. Define the thermal envelope of a house and how to properly seal for air leaks.
7. Identify and Remedy Moisture related problems.
8. Perform Energy Auditing Test related to Air Leakage, Thermal Barriers, Energy Consumption and Health/Safety Issues.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 169 - Advanced Stair Construction

1. Layout and construct winder treads to meet the IRC Code to within 1/16” accuracy based on a basic drawing.
2. Layout and construct a self-supporting circular stair system with laminated inside stringer & curved outside wall.
3. Calculate and layout a 45-degree stringer for a pyramid stair.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Calculate, layout and install basic stairs and components.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

CARP 171 - Advanced Cabinetry and Wood Fabrication

Credits: 1-6
Open-content course designed for students to design and build a medium to large wood project of their choosing in the carpentry lab.

Enrollment Requirement: CARP 164  or instructor consent.

 

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Develop their own shop drawings, material list, cut list, sheet layout and estimate for a project of their own choosing.
2. Fabricate above project and will be graded on accuracy to design, craftsmanship and complexity.

1. Use all major woodworking equipment safely and efficiently.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

CARP 177 - Carpentry Work Experience 1

1. Become acquainted with people in professional settings.
2. Work with others in their field of interest.
3. Adjust to specific aspects of a career.
4. Improve previously acquired skills.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

CARP 178 - Carpentry Work Experience 2

1. Become acquainted with people in professional settings.
2. Work with others in their field of interest.
3. Adjust to specific aspects of a career.
4. Improve previously acquired skills.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

CARP 179 - Carpentry Work Experience 3

1. Become acquainted with people in professional settings.
2. Work with others in their field of interest.
3. Adjust to specific aspects of a career.
4. Improve previously acquired skills.

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

CARP 194 - Special Studies-Carpentry

1. Describe considerations necessary to the completion of special study task.
2. Demonstrate the special study task.  

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.