Woodworking Manufacturing Technologies: Furniture Making (CERT)
The Furniture Making program option prepares students for employment in the woodworking industry, primarily in custom furniture shops. Through courses focusing on tables, casegoods, and other forms, students learn how to use traditional woodworking machinery and hand tools. Core topics include furniture design and finishing. Electives include advanced casegoods, advanced tables, advanced hand-tool topics, veneering, and SketchUp. Graduates are employed as furniture makers, general woodworkers, or are self-employed. Spatial intelligence, cognitive ability, and eye-hand coordination are recommended for those entering the program.
Courses
- ART 126 — History of Furniture Design
- WMT 100 — Woodworking Essentials
- WMT 101 — Introduction to Woodworking
- WMT 102 — Introduction to Solid Wood Casegoods
- WMT 102L — Casegood Manufacturing Lab
- WMT 103 — Introduction to Tables
- WMT 103L — Table Manufacturing Lab
- WMT 107 — Wood Finishing
- WMT 108 — Wood Carving for Furniture
- WMT 117 — Woodworking Appreciation
- WMT 118 — Introduction to Woodturning
- WMT 123 — Decorative Boxes
- WMT 126 — History of Furniture Design
- WMT 130 — Furniture Design
- WMT 135 — Windsor Chair
- WMT 144 — Jigs and Fixtures
- WMT 151 — Introduction to Faceframe Cabinetmaking
- WMT 171A — Introduction to Tables and Woodworking Hand Tools
- WMT 171B — Topics in Cabinetmaking
- WMT 171C — Woodworking Design and Fabrication
- WMT 171L — Furniture Intensive Lab
- WMT 172L — Intermediate Furniture Intensive Lab
- WMT 180 — Running A Woodworking Business
- WMT 182 — Alphacam and the CNC Router
- WMT 183 — SketchUp for Woodworkers
- WMT 184 — Introduction To Digital Fabrication
- WMT 187 — Woodworking Machine Maintenance and Repair
- WMT 201 — Woodworking with Hand Tools
- WMT 202 — Advanced Furniture Casegoods
- WMT 204 — Advanced Tables
- WMT 205 — Veneering and Marquetry
- WMT 218 — Intermediate Woodturning
- WMT 219L — Intermediate Woodturning Lab
- WMT 221 — Advanced Handtools-Handplanes
- WMT 222 — Advanced Handtools - Joinery
- WMT 224 — Advanced Handtools - Dovetails
- WMT 231 — Outdoor Seating
- WMT 232 — Chair Design and Construction
- WMT 233 — Morris Chair
- WMT 237 — Traditional American Furniture
- WMT 245 — Curved and Tapered Forms for Furniture
- WMT 246 — Sculptural Chair