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  • 4.50 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Lecture/5.0 Laboratory Corequisite: AB 51 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher or prior completion. This course introduces beginning techniques for automotive refinishing preparation and spot painting techniques. This course includes basic use of abrasives, primers, fillers, and sealers. Students are instructed in the use of solvents, pre-coats, and basic material problems encountered in today's refinishing market. This course may be taken a maximum of 2 times.
  • 4.50 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Lecture/5.0 Laboratory Corequisite: AB 51 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher or prior completion. This course develops the skills of the professional automotive refinisher in overall multi-coat refinishing. Students will be instructed in the art of tinting colors, spot repair of factory and after-market multi-coat finishes, overall refinishing, interior/exterior care and maintenance, and the refinishing of plastic components. The course includes the testing, research and development of current refinishing materials. I-CAR certification criteria will be incorporated in the training and discussions. This course may be taken a maximum of 2 times.
  • 4.50 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Lecture/5.0 Laboratory Corequisite: AB 51 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher or prior completion. In this course, students learn to prepare and refinish several vehicles, simultaneously. Areas covered include repair of minor body dings, paint preparation, mixing of multiple colors, plus the masking and painting of up to three separate vehicles of varying models, color, and types. This course provides students with hands-on techniques for increasing the volume of vehicles processed in the professional automotive refinishing environment. This course may be taken a maximum of 2 times.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Class hours: 1.5 Lecture/2.5 Laboratory This course increases the marketable skills for the automotive refinisher in the trade. Emphasis is on color and texture duplication, the use of automotive toners to scratch paint mix and to mix specific colors using formulas and tintometers. It also includes spray-blending techniques, compatibility, troubleshooting of materials, and paint chemistry. This course may be taken a maximum of 3 times.
  • 2.50 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/2.0 Laboratory This course trains students in the arts of automotive lettering, graphic design, and pin-striping. Students work with lines, colors, and harmonizing/contrasting concepts to create special effects on commercial and passenger vehicles using a wide range of materials and techniques. Included in this course are the use of computer-generated graphics, stencil making, hand pin-striping, and air-brushing. This course may be taken a maximum of 2 times.
  • 4.50 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Lecture/5.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: AB 61, AB 62, and AB 63 or equivalent with grades of Pass or "C" or higher, or appropriate work experience. This course is designed to increase skill and knowledge as well as update students in automotive refinishing areas of their choice. It will emphasize automotive refinishing and plastic repair techniques, panel and spot painting, sanding and preparation techniques, and overall and multi-coat painting. This course may be taken a maximum of 4 times.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 1.0 Work Experience Class hours: One (1) hour control class each week plus 15 hours of employment per week for Automotive Collision Repair work experience 73 or 20 hours of employment per week for Automotive Collision Repair work experience 74. The employment must be in a job related to the student's educational goal. Corequisite: (1) Concurrent enrollment in the Automotive Collision Repair vocational program with 7 or more units including occupational work experience. Work experience/career internship provides the opportunity for Automotive Collision Repair students to apply skills and knowledge learned in the classroom to related experiences on the job/training site. The aim of the course is to assist students in expanding specific job skills. In the process of doing so, it creates greater communication with increased understanding between the student/workers, the college, and the employer/trainers. Students also pursue a program of self-evaluation to determine individual job weaknesses and strengths. Semester projects that relate to the major and job skills must be completed on the job/training site. These courses may be taken a maximum of 4 times.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Class hours: One (1) hour control class each week plus 15 hours of employment per week for Automotive Collision Repair work experience 73 or 20 hours of employment per week for Automotive Collision Repair work experience 74. The employment must be in a job related to the student's educational goal. Corequisite: (1) Concurrent enrollment in the Automotive Collision Repair vocational program with 7 or more units including occupational work experience. Work experience/career internship provides the opportunity for Automotive Collision Repair students to apply skills and knowledge learned in the classroom to related experiences on the job/training site. The aim of the course is to assist students in expanding specific job skills. In the process of doing so, it creates greater communication with increased understanding between the student/workers, the college, and the employer/trainers. Students also pursue a program of self-evaluation to determine individual job weaknesses and strengths. Semester projects that relate to the major and job skills must be completed on the job/training site. These courses may be taken a maximum of 4 times.
  • 4.50 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Lecture/5.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: AB 51 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher, or appropriate work experience. This course emphasizes design and fabrication of automotive body panels. Additional topics include customization of existing body panels, partial-panel fabrication, metal finishing, fabrication welding techniques and the application and use of the sheet metal brake, sheer, shrinker/stretcher, and bead roller. This course may be taken a maximum of 2 times.
  • 4.50 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Lecture/5.0 Laboratory Recommendation: AB 75 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher, or appropriate work experience. This course furthers student learning in the area of automotive sheet metal design and fabrication. Students will learn to design and fabricate portions of sheet metal panels to be replaced on vehicles. Reproduction of more complex angles and shapes will be introduced. Use of specific sheet metal design and fabrication tools and equipment with appropriate techniques will be included. This course may be taken a maximum of 2 times.
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