CARP 164 - Intermediate Woodworking and Cabinetry

Credits: 1-4
A competency-based/hybrid course. Intermediate woodworking and cabinetry skills. Topics include wood species and identification and characteristics, various cabinet construction methods, common cabinetry materials and hardware, sources for cabinetry parts and components, cabinet design and construction, hardware installation and adjustment, power tool and stationary tool set-up, safety procedures and operations.

Enrollment Requirement: INDUS 101 or instructor consent.

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

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

Program Outcomes

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

College-wide Outcomes

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.