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Electricity Program

Registration Deadline: May 30, 2025 

Next Start Date: August 11, 2025

 

The purpose of this program is to prepare students for employment or advanced training in a variety of electrical construction industries. This program focuses on broad, transferable skills, stresses the understanding of all aspects of the electricity industry, and demonstrates such elements of the industry as planning, management, finance, technical and production skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues, and health, safety, and environmental issues.


This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Architecture and Construction career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Architecture and Construction career cluster.

  • Please see the Basic Skills Requirement table by clicking here and find your program.

    If required, take the Basic Skills Test at our Testing Center. Call 941-255-7500 Ext. 1745 to schedule to take the test.

  • Adult students will complete 1200 clock hours + the NCCER Core Certification=potential entrance into a Paid Apprenticeship with Tri-County.

  • OCP Course Number Course Title Teacher Certification Length
    A BCV0603 Electrician Helper

    Electrical @7 7G

    Ind Engr 7G

    Tec Ed 1@2

    		 300 Hours
    B BCV0640 Residential Electrician Electrical @7 7G 450 Hours
    C BCV0652 Commercial Electrician Electrical @7 7G 450 Hours

     

  • Standards

    After successfully completing this program, the student will be able to perform the following:

    1. Explain the importance of health, safety, environmental stewardship and related regulatory compliance.
    2. Identify, use and maintain the tools and accessories used in the electrical industry.
    3. Demonstrate an understanding of basic Direct-Current (DC) electrical-circuit skills.
    4. Apply mathematics knowledge and skills to electricity.
    5. Demonstrate an understanding of basic electricity.
    6. Read and interpret basic electric codes.
    7. Apply further mathematics knowledge and skills to electricity.
    8. Demonstrate further understanding of electricity.
    9. Demonstrate analytical and trouble shooting skills related to electrical principles.  
    10. Demonstrate proficiency in electrical math problems and skills.
    11. Demonstrate an understanding of Alternating Current (AC) circuit skills.
    12. Explain the importance of employability and entrepreneurship skills.
    13. Install residential wiring.
    14. Install residential wiring systems.
    15. Demonstrate proficiency in commercial wiring.
    16. Demonstrate specialized electrical skills.

    • NCCER Level 1 Electrical
    • HBI CORE
    • OSHA 10

    • Helpers- Electricians
    • Electricians

    To find out more about these opportunities, please visit O*Net OnLine.

  • Electricity does not have prerequisites.

  • A close-up of a circuit board with wires and components, including a multimeter and a small LED light.
  • A close-up of a plastic storage box filled with various electrical connectors, including red, blue, and yellow wire terminals, white cable clamps, and red heat shrink tubing.
  • A worker wearing a yellow hard hat and safety gloves works on electrical wiring.
  • A close-up of an electrical multimeter, wires, and pliers, suggesting an electrical project or repair.

 

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