Nov 22, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum 
    
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum

Welding Technology, AAS

Location(s): TJC West


If you like working with your hands, a career in welding technology may be just right for you. Earn your Associate of Applied Science degree through our Welding Technology program and join an industry that is in demand and has a great outlook for the future.

Our hands-on teaching methods and state-of-the-art lab allow you to get your hands dirty and really experience what welding is like. You will get acclimated to the tools used in the industry, safety procedures and the latest welding techniques. The experience you will gain with our program is as close as you can get to the real thing. The program is designed to qualify the student for entry-level code welding for industry.

Join the Welding Technology program and let us ignite what could be a lucrative future for you.

Marketable skills for this award include: flexibility/adaptability, problem solving, self-starter, team work, technical skills and reading prints/welding symbols.

 

Associate of Applied Science
TSI Complete

General Education Requirements: 15 Credits


Every Associate of Applied Science degree plan must contain at least 15 semester hours of general education courses. At least one course must be taken from each of the following areas: humanities/fine arts (language, philosophy & culture/creative arts), social/behavioral science (social and behavioral sciences/American history/government/political science), and natural science/mathematics (life and physical sciences/mathematics).

Major Courses: 45
General Education Requirements: 15

Total Semester Hours: 60


Course Sequence:


Third Semester


Fourth Semester


Summer I


Total Semester Hours: 60


NOTE: Department-specific courses must be taken in sequence and may have a prerequisite course. Exceptions must be approved in writing by the department chair. Some courses are only offered during Fall semester or Spring semester but not both. Please plan accordingly.

# Indicates course only taught in the fall semester

+ Indicates course only taught in the spring semester

^ Indicates course only taught in the summer semester

NOTE: Applicants must meet the admission requirements for TJC and take the Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test. Bennett test scores will not be used to exclude a student from enrollment in the program. All new students are required to attend welding orientation. All required major courses must be completed with a “C” or better.