DRFT 111 Drafting | 57 Hours 4.5 Credits - Exposes apprentices to the fundamentals and principles of engineering drafting as it relates to the shipbuilding industry. Skills taught include freehand sketching, and both 2D and 3D AutoCAD applications for orthographic projection, auxiliary and sectional views, isometric drawings, and solid modeling.

SHCN 111 Ship Construction I | 38 Hours 3.5 Credits - Introduces shipbuilding by providing a common vocabulary of shipbuilding terms, the basic elements of a ship, the concept of a process, the shipbuilding trades, and the company’s quality program. Includes specific topics such as: the definition of a ship, ship's mission requirements, ship's hull design, drawings, lines and offsets, ship components of hull structure, the modern shipbuilding process and facilities, the fundamental force support systems, and the concepts of quality and process excellence used at NNS.

MATH 112 Mathematics II | 57 Hours 4.5 Credits 

Uses algebraic principles to solve shipbuilding applications of plane and solid geometry, right and oblique triangle trigonometry, and vector principles. Includes principles/problems from plane and solid geometry and trigonometry, Pythagorean Theorem, surface area and volume of various figures, trigonometric functions and solution of right triangles, oblique triangles using the Laws of Sines and Cosines, and vectors and equilibrium solutions of concurrent force systems.