BUSI 222 Business Operations and Leadership | 47.5 Hours 4.5 Credits - Introduces business and leadership concepts with specific application to the shipbuilding industry and leadership principles of Newport News Shipbuilding. Includes topics such as, product mix, business strategies, contracts, process improvement, quality programs, shipbuilding economics, teams and teamwork, communications, the principles of leadership and corporate values.

MATH 111 Mathematics | 45 Hours 4.5 Credits - Supports the craft training programs. It provides apprentices with the basic skills necessary to be successful in mathematics, science, and engineering courses of their academic curriculum and prepares apprentices for future educational opportunities. It includes linear equations, factoring, algebraic fractions, exponents, roots, radicals, quadratic equations, graphing, systems of equations, and application-related principles/problems.

M112 Technical Mathematics II | 57 Hours 3 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.


S101 SafeStart | 30 Hours 2 Credits


Employs the broad category of safety awareness and personal safety skills development. It focuses on the human factors that are involved in the majority of incidents and injuries. States like rushing, frustration, fatigue and complacency lead to unintentional, risk-increasing errors like eyes and mind not on task, being in or moving into the line-of-fire or losing your balance, traction or grip.