Automotive Servicing - Grand Rapids Community College

Automotive Servicing from Grand Rapids Community College is a Campus Certificate Automotive degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. In less than ten months, this program gives students the training necessary to fill jobs as beginning automotive mechanics . The program is arranged in four 8-week periods and one 3-week interim session. Courses are structured so that students may enter the program at the beginning of any 8-week period. With few exceptions, courses may be taken in any order, so that students may plan their program around their job schedules. Instructors plan their teaching to supply the background and theory that technicians need in order to maintain and repair complex modern automobiles . However, about 60 percent of the class time in this program is devoted to learning in laboratories and shops so that students "learn by doing." The capstone course in the program, Applied Auto Servicing, helps students bridge the gap between school and full-time work as an auto mechanic. Students spend the three-week Interim Session in eight-hour days learning in a supervised, on-the-job training environment. Students are not required to purchase hand tools to participate in this program; however, it will be necessary to purchase hand tools to be successfully employed as an automotive technician. Some advanced standing credit may be granted to entering graduates of high school vocational programs that are members of the Kent Metropolitan Articulation Project. All credits earned in this certificate program are applicable towards the Associate in Applied Arts and Sciences degree in Automotive Technology . View more details on Grand Rapids Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Automotive courses.