Skilled Trades and Technical Fields

About This Area of Study

What are the trades? To become an expert and eligible for employment, you’ll need to take courses and receive training that fine-tunes your technical knowledge of building, inspecting and maintaining a high degree of quality and safety within professional practices that include electrical, carpentry, automotive repair and more.

What You Can Expect to Do

If you’re the type who loves to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty, this is the area of study for you. With strict standards, trade jobs are hands-on, precise and measured down to the tiniest fraction of an inch. You’ll master tools and techniques and learn to improvise, repair and produce with the same level of quality and efficiency across every project.

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