COURSE CODE: 8437

Architectural Drawing and Design

SCED Code: 21103
Virginia Extended Description: 36
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

Students learn the principles of communicating architecture designs and increase their understanding of working drawings and construction techniques learned in Technical Drawing and Design. Experiences include residential and commercial building designs, rendering, model development, and structural detail developments. Students use computer-aided drawing and design (CADD) equipment and established standards or codes to prepare models for presentation. The course is especially beneficial to future architects, interior designers, or home builders. 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
Construction
  • Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
  • Carpenters
  • Construction Managers
  • Construction and Building Inspectors
  • Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
  • Electricians
  • Project Management Specialists
  • Roofers
  • Tile and Stone Setters
Design/Pre-Construction
  • Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
  • Architectural and Civil Drafters
  • Civil Engineers
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Interior Designers
  • Landscape Architects
  • Mechanical Drafters
  • Mechanical Engineers
Maintenance/Operations
  • Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
  • Carpenters
  • Construction and Building Inspectors
  • Electricians
  • Roofers
  • Tile and Stone Setters

Pathway Occupation
A/V Technology & Film
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
  • Interior Designers

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