2024-2025 Catalog 
  
    May 19, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

Career Technologies AAS - Drafting and Design Technology Program


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Code: AAS.IDT.DRFT

The AAS.IDT.DRFT program will produce qualified design-draftspersons who, in support of architects and designers, civil and MEP engineers, contractors and industrial designers, in diverse technical fields will be able to communicate design information by conventional pencil and sketch drafting, computer aided drafting, and oral communication.

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

  1. Read and create multi-view mechanical and architectural drawings compliant to industry standards.
  2. Demonstrate effective time management responsibility by completing projects with assigned time constraints.
  3. Develop two dimensional presentation drawings using computer aided drafting software.
  4. Communicate graphically and orally in proper technical terminology and in their related systems.

Career Pathways

Entry level Manual Drafter Entry level Architectural, Mechanical, Civil, Structural, and Landscape Drafter Entry level CAD Drafter
Landscape Drafter Entry level Technical Illustrator  

Recommended Semester Sequence


General Education Requirements


Subtotal: 6 Credits


Humanities and Social Sciences *


Two general education courses selected from the following fields, with no more than one course in any one field: Arts (Art [ART], Music [MUS], Theatre Arts [THR], Cinema Studies [CIN]); History (HIS); Literature (LIT); Philosophy and Religion (PHR); World Languages and Cultures (LAN); Economics (ECO); Geography (GEO); Political Science (POL); Psychology (PSY); Sociology (SOC) and Anthropology (ANT).

Subtotal: 6 Credits


Mathematics, Natural Science, and Technology


Subtotal: 8 Credits


Subtotal: 20 Credits


Subtotal: 34 Credits


Free Elective


Subtotal: 6 Credits


Total Credit Hours: 60


Specific Program Notes

Students are encouraged to take their courses in semester sequence order.

Please note that required courses may have prerequisites. Click on each course to view details.

*General Education Elective(s) .

*Free Electives - Recommended: HRT-104 , TEC-180  

**Restricted Electives - Recommended: DFT-270  or DFT-282  

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