COURSE CODE: 8562

Drafting, Advanced

SCED Code: 21102
Virginia Extended Description: IV
Suggested Grade Level: 11, 12
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 280
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Drafting
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: SkillsUSA
Non-Traditional?: F

Building on competencies taught in Drafting, students master the theory and manipulative skills necessary to produce complete and accurate drawings based on the ideas and sketches of engineers, architects, and designers. Students focus on performing architectural drafting as well as mechanical drafting and design operations, using manual drafting, computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), and additive manufacturing (3D printing) techniques. Students explore careers in drafting, including industry certification options. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

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Course Sequences

A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Design/Pre-Construction
  • Architectural and Civil Drafters
  • Architects, Except Landscape and Naval

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Electrical and Electronics Drafters
  • Mechanical Drafters

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