Study in the field of machine and metals technology is designed as preparation for entrance into metalworking occupations. Graduates may enter the fields dealing with industrial production, prototype construction, special die work, or research and development. The courses in welding are designed to provide opportunity for the development of skills, knowledge, and experience for employment in the occupation and as auxiliary experience for persons in other majors.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Demonstrate the technical knowledge and technical skills that will serve to prepare them for entry into careers of the manufacturing and related industries.

🗸 Determine the materials that are suitable for specific applications in the machine and metals technology fields and demonstrate their applications.

The Vocational ESL Training Certificate of Competency prepares non-native English speakers to pursue their chosen professional careers and additional vocational programs. Students gain valuable skills that help them effectively search and interview for jobs, communicate in the workplace, create professional correspondence and documents, collaborate on projects and presentations, and use digital tools. Students also gain confidence speaking English in front of others beyond the classroom. This certificate provides students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistence and accomplishment in vocational ESL.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Create professional workplace correspondence and documents, using intermediate-level English and a variety of technology tools

🗸 Collaborate on professional workplace projects and presentations, using intermediate-level English and a variety of technology tools

🗸 Apply appropriate intermediate-level English and cultural strategies in the U.S. workplace

🗸 Employ intermediate-level English and communication skills to identify potential employers, market one’s skills and experience, and interview appropriately for a specific job

🗸 Create a professional resume and cover letter for a specific job, using appropriate intermediate-level English

The ESL Intermediate Workplace Skills Certificate of Competency provides intermediate English language skills to prepare non-native English speakers for the workplace. Courses emphasize intermediate English communication, computer, and collaboration skills. This certificate provides students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistence and accomplishment in vocational ESL.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Apply appropriate intermediate-level English and communication strategies in the U.S. workplace 

🗸 Create professional workplace correspondence and documents, using intermediate-level English and technology tools

🗸 Collaborate on professional workplace projects and presentations, using intermediate-level English and technology tools

The ESL Beginning Workplace Skills Certificate of Competency provides beginning-level English skills to prepare non-native English speakers for work in the U.S. Courses emphasize basic workplace English communication. After completing a general ESL workplace course, students can choose a focus on computer, custodial, construction, or cooking training. This certificate provides students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistence and accomplishment in vocational ESL.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Communicate in the workplace, using high beginning English and basic cultural strategies

🗸 Apply health and safety practices in the workplace

🗸 Identify basic workers’ rights in the U.S.

The ESL Pre-Academic Certificate of Competency is a program for students who intend to pursue further academic studies. It is a bridge to the ESL credit academic sequence and covers pre-academic speaking, listening, reading, and writing in integrated skills, intensive, and pre-academic courses.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Use analytic strategies to interpret meaning of pre-academic spoken and written texts.

🗸 Use learned language structures, vocabulary, and strategies to produce written and spoken texts on pre-academic topics.

🗸 Apply college resources to support beginning academic work.

The ESL Advanced Low Certificate of Competency provides non-native English-speaking students with advanced-low reading, writing,
listening, and speaking skills to prepare for ESL and non-ESL credit courses and certificates or advancement in the workplace. It also provides employers and others with documented evidence of persistence and achievement in low-advanced English skills.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Apply a variety of strategies to participate in a range of oral discourse with increasing fluency and control of complex language
structures and forms.
🗸 Interpret authentic narrative and informational spoken texts, including lectures or conversations on abstract topics in familiar contexts.
🗸 Interpret authentic narrative and informational written texts, including those with abstract topics in familiar contexts.
🗸 Write multi-paragraph texts using appropriate structures and forms.

The ESL Intermediate High Oral Communication Skills Certificate provides ESL students high-intermediate speaking and listening
skills to participate in extended interactions and to expand their ability to participate in the community, continue their education, and pursue employment opportunities. It provides students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistence and accomplishment in English oral communication.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Identify and respond to information in a range of extended oral interactions in English on a variety of familiar and unfamiliar topics.
🗸 Apply a range of high-intermediate English language structures and vocabulary to communicate in extended oral discourse on a
variety of topics.

The ESL Intermediate High Focus Skills Certificate provides the opportunity for students to develop high-intermediate English skills with an emphasis on a chosen skill area such as reading, speaking and listening, pronunciation, or computer skills for learning English. It prepares students for increasing community participation, further study, and employment. It provides students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistence and accomplishment in English skills.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Interpret general and supporting ideas in a range of high-intermediate authentic oral English texts.
🗸 Use high-intermediate English structures and forms to communicate in extended spoken discourse with a high degree of accuracy and fluency.
🗸 Construct meaning from high-intermediate extended written English texts.
🗸 Use high-intermediate English structures and forms to write developed, organized multi-paragraph texts.

The ESL Intermediate High Certificate of Competency provides ESL students with high-intermediate English language skills to participate in extended interactions and to expand their ability to participate in the community, continue their education, and pursue employment opportunities. It provides students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistence and accomplishment in English language skills at the high-intermediate level.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Identify essential points and details of spoken English on familiar and unfamiliar topics.
🗸 Apply high intermediate language structures and forms in extended oral discourse.
🗸 Identify essential points of written English on familiar and unfamiliar topics.
🗸 Apply high intermediate language structures and forms in extended written discourse

The ESL Intermediate Low Focus Skills Certificate provides the opportunity for students to develop low-intermediate English skills with an emphasis on a chosen skill area such as reading, writing, speaking and listening, or computer skills for learning English. It prepares students for increasing community participation, further study, and employment. It provides students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistence and accomplishment in English skills.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Interpret general and supporting ideas in low-intermediate oral English texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts
🗸 Use low-intermediate English structures and forms to engage in extended conversational exchanges with increasing accuracy and fluency
🗸 Construct meaning from low-intermediate written English texts on familiar and unfamiliar topics.
🗸 Use low-intermediate English structures and vocabulary to write one or more organized paragraphs