COURSE CODE: 8617

Utility/Heavy Construction II

SCED Code: 20052
Virginia Extended Description: II
Suggested Grade Level: 11, 12
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 280
Credits: 2
OSHA Compliance Required?: Yes
CTSO: SkillsUSA
Non-Traditional?: F

This program provides the knowledge and the hands-on skills needed to secure a job as a construction equipment operator. Students demonstrate site grading and development, excavation, drainage, and pipe laying. They study soil, learn to read blueprints, and gain experience in operating bulldozers, backhoes, front-end loaders, excavators, and skid steers. 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.

Class Size Regulation

The Virginia Administrative Code regulates the class size for this course. For additional information, see 8VAC20-120-150, "Maximum class size," or contact the Virginia Department of Education Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at cte@doe.virginia.gov.

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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
  • Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
  • Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
  • Pipelayers
  • Crane and Tower Operators
  • Material Moving Workers, All Other

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