13 courses with the subject MASN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Studies fundamental information related to the masonry industry, including: safe work practices; basic hand and power tools; brick and block sizes, nomenclature, and characteristics; mortar types, characteristics, and mixing procedures; and related equipment.
Provides practical experience in the basic skills related to the masonry industry, including: mixing mortar, stocking block and brick, scaffold building, spreading bed joints, buttering head joints, laying block to the line, striking mortar joints, and building corners, leads, and straight walls with concrete block.
Studies fundamental information related to the masonry industry, including: plan reading, estimating, moisture control (including cleaning, pointing, and caulking). Provides instruction in safe work practices and masonry-related job opportunities.
Provides continued reinforcement and practical experience in the basic skills related to the masonry industry, including: spreading bed joints and buttering head joints for brick, laying brick to the line, striking mortar joints, and building corners, leads, and straight walls with brick.
Studies fundamental information related to the concrete and cement industry, including: the ingredients and mixing of concrete; interpreting specifications and understanding testing procedures for concrete; the tools used in forming, placing, and finishing concrete; and estimating and repairing concrete. Also discusses arc welding and oxyacetylene cutting.
Provides continued reinforcement and practical experience in the basic skills related to laying brick and block. Provides practical experience in the basic skills related to the concrete masonry industry, including: constructing forms; placing, leveling, finishing, and curing concrete.
Offers further study in fundamental information related to the concrete and cement industry, including: plan reading and estimating of concrete; preparation of substrate and forms; placing, leveling, finishing, and curing concrete. Discusses finishing floors, steps, sidewalks, and patios; constructing joints; and protection of concrete.
Provides continued reinforcement and practical experience in the basic skills related to laying brick and block and in skills related to the concrete masonry industry.
Offers a study of advanced topics in the masonry industry, including: specialty products such as customized masonry units, glass block, sills, lintels, and copings. Technical discussion includes the function and location of control joints in walls and factors to consider in the construction of chimneys and fireplaces. Also discusses stone masonry, to include various types of stone and bonding styles. Introduces floor and wall tile installation, as well as stone, slate, marble, and granite panels.
Provides shop practice and on-the-job experience in skills related to the masonry industry: the layout and construction of various types of arches; the construction of stone walls in rubble and ashlar patterns; the layout and construction of conventional and heat-circulating fireplaces.
Offers primarily an in-depth explanation of how to take-off material quantities and other types of masonry, to include labor costs, overhead, contingencies, and then build profit into estimates. Also explores the topic of concrete reinforcement and ceramic tile installation.
Provides practical experience to improve masonry skills already acquired, with an emphasis on production and the application of theory principles of planning and supervision as applied to real job situations. Involves construction work on campus restoration and improvement projects along with optional involvement in off-campus masonry construction projects.
Provides instruction on state-of-the-art advancements, trends, and future-forward concepts in masonry as they relate to theory, skills, and leadership in the field.
Source: Williamson College of the Trades's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
