OKAW Programs
Auto Body Repair
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This course includes the name, use, and care of the tools of the trade. As well as skills needed for welding, replacing and repairing parts, panels, and interior and exterior cleanup. It also includes spray gun techniques along with care of paint equipment, including types of paint and refinish systems. Another unit is repair estimating.
Automotive Mechanics
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This course combines technical background information in the classroom and practical experience in the shop. Training is given on many types of vehicles and engines, using the latest types of equipment. Work and study is done on engine overhaul and tune-up, suspension, brakes, wheel balancing, electrical systems, carburetion, emissions control computer systems, air-conditions, and accessories.
Building Trades
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This program is aimed at students desiring a career in construction. The class constructs a modern home each year on a lot owned by the school. On-site construction is accompanied by classroom work that teaches theoretical and technical knowledge of the building trades. The students perform the concrete, masonry, carpentry, and electrical tasks, and observe or assist with the sheet metal and plumbing installation. The project is completed with painting and landscaping before it is sold.
Commercial Art
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year program for junior and senior students interested in a career or a vocation in commercial illustration and advertising. The course allows students to experience advertising, computer graphics, paste-up design, sign painting, fashion design, interior design, and excellence in craftsmanship with a time element stressed as if employed in the real world.
Drafting
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year program for junior and senior students interested in a career or a vocation in commercial illustration and advertising. The course allows students to experience advertising, computer graphics, paste-up design, sign painting, fashion design, interior design, and excellence in craftsmanship with a time element stressed as if employed in the real world.
Electronics
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This course is a two-year program for students who desire a career in the many fields of electronics and includes both theory and practical experience. Introductory principles ranging from simple AC-DC circuitry through robotics and laser/fiber optics will be taught. Practical skills will include trouble-shooting methods, reading schematic diagrams, and basic programming. Advanced topics include solid-state devices, microprocessors, digital integrated circuitry, and interfacing. The repair of communications, audio-visual equipment, appliances, sound systems and entertainment equipment, will be common. Also included is computer circuitry, repair of computers, and computer networking. Math aptitude and good analytical reasoning is conducive to success in this program.
Food Service
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year program for those students who aim for the employment in the food industry. Classroom work will include units in food preparations using restaurant equipment, such as a bench mixer, deep fryer, and grill. Menu planning, serving skills, management practices, nutrition, job interviews, and applications will be covered. Field trips will be taken to hotels, bakeries, hospitals, and restaurants. Trained food service personnel are in demand and job opportunities are excellent for the future. On the job experience in food service establishments will be provided. Opportunity for state certification by providing instruction on
Applied Food Service Sanitation.
Health Occupations
Course Length: One-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: The purpose of this program is to give young people an opportunity to explore health careers while learning the skills necessary to become a proficient nursing assistant. Skills taught include the techniques needed for determining vitals, bathing, bed making, patient care, symptoms of diseases, and care of the aged. Each student can be certified in CPR and receive state certification as a nurse’s aide. In addition, the class visits and/or works in nursing homes, dental offices, veterinary offices, the hospital and its specialized departments. Students receiving an A or B in this class are waived one hour of college credit if they attend Kaskaskia College in the LPN program.
Machine Shop
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year course that allows students to study blueprint reading, melting, shop safety, shop mathematics, and CNC. Emphasis will be placed on operation and set-up of metal cutting, lathes, mills, drills, grinders, and saws.
Model Office
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year program open to juniors and seniors. This course provides practical experience in the tasks performed by office personnel. Areas covered are as followed: advanced keyboarding, Office 2000 suite, and grooming. Various simulations are completed in an office-type setting to stress time management and productivity. Second-year students expand skills acquired the first year. In addition, students often complete projects as requested by teachers and members of the community. One year of keyboarding is required for this course.
Power Mechanics
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: A two-year course that is designed to be vocational in nature and is for those junior and senior students who aim for a career in the repair and assembly of farm machinery. Instruction will be given for all types of mechanical equipment, including diesel motors, hydraulic systems, and electrical systems. Diagnostic equipment for engine analysis will be used and advanced welding will be included. Assembly of new equipment, tune ups, and complete overhaul of old equipment will be part of the course.
Welding
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: The classroom portion of this program provides study in welding safety, basic math, blueprint reading and layout, metallurgy, welding processes, fabrication, and repair.
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This course includes the name, use, and care of the tools of the trade. As well as skills needed for welding, replacing and repairing parts, panels, and interior and exterior cleanup. It also includes spray gun techniques along with care of paint equipment, including types of paint and refinish systems. Another unit is repair estimating.
Automotive Mechanics
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This course combines technical background information in the classroom and practical experience in the shop. Training is given on many types of vehicles and engines, using the latest types of equipment. Work and study is done on engine overhaul and tune-up, suspension, brakes, wheel balancing, electrical systems, carburetion, emissions control computer systems, air-conditions, and accessories.
Building Trades
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This program is aimed at students desiring a career in construction. The class constructs a modern home each year on a lot owned by the school. On-site construction is accompanied by classroom work that teaches theoretical and technical knowledge of the building trades. The students perform the concrete, masonry, carpentry, and electrical tasks, and observe or assist with the sheet metal and plumbing installation. The project is completed with painting and landscaping before it is sold.
Commercial Art
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year program for junior and senior students interested in a career or a vocation in commercial illustration and advertising. The course allows students to experience advertising, computer graphics, paste-up design, sign painting, fashion design, interior design, and excellence in craftsmanship with a time element stressed as if employed in the real world.
Drafting
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year program for junior and senior students interested in a career or a vocation in commercial illustration and advertising. The course allows students to experience advertising, computer graphics, paste-up design, sign painting, fashion design, interior design, and excellence in craftsmanship with a time element stressed as if employed in the real world.
Electronics
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This course is a two-year program for students who desire a career in the many fields of electronics and includes both theory and practical experience. Introductory principles ranging from simple AC-DC circuitry through robotics and laser/fiber optics will be taught. Practical skills will include trouble-shooting methods, reading schematic diagrams, and basic programming. Advanced topics include solid-state devices, microprocessors, digital integrated circuitry, and interfacing. The repair of communications, audio-visual equipment, appliances, sound systems and entertainment equipment, will be common. Also included is computer circuitry, repair of computers, and computer networking. Math aptitude and good analytical reasoning is conducive to success in this program.
Food Service
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year program for those students who aim for the employment in the food industry. Classroom work will include units in food preparations using restaurant equipment, such as a bench mixer, deep fryer, and grill. Menu planning, serving skills, management practices, nutrition, job interviews, and applications will be covered. Field trips will be taken to hotels, bakeries, hospitals, and restaurants. Trained food service personnel are in demand and job opportunities are excellent for the future. On the job experience in food service establishments will be provided. Opportunity for state certification by providing instruction on
Applied Food Service Sanitation.
Health Occupations
Course Length: One-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: The purpose of this program is to give young people an opportunity to explore health careers while learning the skills necessary to become a proficient nursing assistant. Skills taught include the techniques needed for determining vitals, bathing, bed making, patient care, symptoms of diseases, and care of the aged. Each student can be certified in CPR and receive state certification as a nurse’s aide. In addition, the class visits and/or works in nursing homes, dental offices, veterinary offices, the hospital and its specialized departments. Students receiving an A or B in this class are waived one hour of college credit if they attend Kaskaskia College in the LPN program.
Machine Shop
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year course that allows students to study blueprint reading, melting, shop safety, shop mathematics, and CNC. Emphasis will be placed on operation and set-up of metal cutting, lathes, mills, drills, grinders, and saws.
Model Office
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: This is a two-year program open to juniors and seniors. This course provides practical experience in the tasks performed by office personnel. Areas covered are as followed: advanced keyboarding, Office 2000 suite, and grooming. Various simulations are completed in an office-type setting to stress time management and productivity. Second-year students expand skills acquired the first year. In addition, students often complete projects as requested by teachers and members of the community. One year of keyboarding is required for this course.
Power Mechanics
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: A two-year course that is designed to be vocational in nature and is for those junior and senior students who aim for a career in the repair and assembly of farm machinery. Instruction will be given for all types of mechanical equipment, including diesel motors, hydraulic systems, and electrical systems. Diagnostic equipment for engine analysis will be used and advanced welding will be included. Assembly of new equipment, tune ups, and complete overhaul of old equipment will be part of the course.
Welding
Course Length: Two-year program
Course Credit: 6 credits
Course Description: The classroom portion of this program provides study in welding safety, basic math, blueprint reading and layout, metallurgy, welding processes, fabrication, and repair.