Woodworking Manufacturing Technologies: Cabinetmaking (A.S.)
Department website: https://www.cerritos.edu/woodworking/
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE
The Cabinetmaking program option prepares students for employment in the woodworking industry, primarily in cabinet shops. Through courses focusing on different forms of cabinetmaking, including face frame, frameless, and CNC, students learn how to use traditional woodworking machinery, hand tools, and CNC machines. Core topics include CNC and cabinetmaking, as well as design. Electives include wood finishing, veneering, and running a woodworking business. Graduates are employed as cabinetmakers, general woodworkers, CNC operators, or are self-employed. Spatial intelligence, cognitive ability, and hand-eye coordination are recommended for those entering the program.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Students build a face frame or frameless cabinet project to meet the requirements of specified planning documents.
- Students select and install base, case, and crown moldings.
- Students use computer software to create planning documents for cabinet making.
- Students work as a team, designing, building, and installing a cabinet or millwork project.
- Students install a face frame or frameless cabinet and scribe it to the wall.
- Students design and construct a cabinet using traditional woodworking and CNC machines.
Program Requirements
| Code Number | Course Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| WMT 101 | Introduction to Woodworking | 3.0 |
| WMT 151 | Introduction to Faceframe Cabinetmaking | 4.0 |
| or WMT 153 | Introduction to Frameless Cabinetmaking | |
| WMT 154 | Introduction to Cabinet Installation | 4.0 |
| or WMT 155 | Architectural Millwork | |
| WMT 181 | Introduction to Cabinet Vision | 3.0-4.0 |
| or WMT 182 | Alphacam and the CNC Router | |
| WMT 251 | Intermediate Cabinetmaking | 4.0 |
| Select a minimum of four units of the following: | 4.0 | |
| Running A Woodworking Business (3) | ||
| Woodworking Machine Maintenance and Repair (1.5) | ||
| Introduction to Solid Wood Casegoods (4) | ||
| Wood Finishing (3) | ||
| Jigs and Fixtures (2) | ||
| Introduction To Digital Fabrication (4) | ||
| Woodworking with Hand Tools (4) | ||
| Intermediate Alphacam and the CNC Router (4) | ||
| Production Cabinetmaking (4) | ||
| Production-Special Projects (4) | ||
| Total Units | 22-23 | |
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
- Complete a minimum of 60 units to include the above requirements,
- the Associate of Science General Education requirements,
- and electives as needed.
Recommended Courses
| Code Number | Course Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| WMT 107 | Wood Finishing | 3.0 |
| WMT 180 | Running A Woodworking Business | 3.0 |
| WMT 187 | Woodworking Machine Maintenance and Repair | 1.5 |