- Painting/Decorating 1st Year Apprenticeship Units: 6

Catalog description

This is the first year course for individuals in the building trades' Painting/Decorating apprenticeship program. This course is taken twice in the first year. The total embedded material is covered when this course is taken twice in one year. This course satisfies 45 hours of instruction toward specified programs and certificates for AAS Human Relations General Education requirements. This course satisfies 50 hours of instruction toward specified programs and certificates for AAS Math/Quantitative Reasoning General Education requirements. This course covers historical background and development of the trade; the apprenticeship program; labor-management organizations; trade mathematics; blueprint reading; use and care of tools and equipment; rigging; scaffolding preparation of exterior surfaces -- masonry, wood and metal; exterior materials and their use; equipment and application techniques -- brushing and spray; industrial safety.