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  "college": "laney-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "WELD",
  "name": "Welding",
  "sourceUrl": "https://lan.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/44166/44231/44230/44507/44510",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "WELD 200",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "200",
      "title": "Special Projects Laboratory",
      "units": "1-4",
      "hours": "3 - 12 hours lab",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Designed for advanced students: Upgrading of specific welding skills and selected welding projects.",
      "notes": [
        "Course study under this section may be repeated three times."
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 203A",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "203A",
      "title": "Beginning Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to Gas Tungsten Arc Welding GTAW (TIG): Safe welding practices, use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) theory and equipment.",
      "notes": [
        "Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE)."
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-203a",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 203B",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "203B",
      "title": "Intermediate Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 203A.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Continuation of WELD 203A: Safe welding practices, personal protective equipment (PPE), material safety data sheets (MSDS) theory and equipment.",
      "notes": [
        "Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE)."
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-203b",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 203C",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "203C",
      "title": "Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 203B or Instructor's approval.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Continuation of WELD 203B: Advanced applications of GTAW (TIG) welding including safe welding practices, personal protective equipment (PPE), material safety data sheets (MSDS) theory, equipment and advanced processes.",
      "notes": [
        "Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE)."
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-203c",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 203D",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "203D",
      "title": "Certification Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 203A.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW): Safe welding practices, personal protective equipment (PPE), material safety data sheets (MSDS), defects, equipment and weld procedures. Laboratory includes certification testing and practice.",
      "notes": [
        "Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE). A fee will be charged for third-party laboratory testing. Course study under this section may be repeated one hundred times."
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-203d",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 204A",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "204A",
      "title": "Wire Feed Welding I (GMAW)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Wire Feed Welding I: Introduction to wire feed welding, welding safety, process theory, metal transfer, shielding gases, filler selection, electricity, weld symbols, and laboratory manipulation on closed-root on steel welding with gas-shielded wire.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 4,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-204a",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 204B",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "204B",
      "title": "Wire Feed Welding II (FCAW)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 204A.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Wire Feed Welding II : Intermediate wire feed welding, welding and shop safety, theory, welding symbols, and closed-root welding on steel plates using both gas-shielded and self-shieldedflux-cored wire.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 4,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-204b",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 204C",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "204C",
      "title": "Wire Feed Welding III (ADV)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 204B.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Wire Feed Welding III: Advanced Wire Feed level. Using skills and knowledge learned from previous classes which focused on welding and shop safety, welding symbols, and closed-root welding on steel plates using both GMAW and FCAW processes, students will apply both to various projects to be decided by the instructor.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-204c",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 204D",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "204D",
      "title": "Wire Feed Welding (Certification)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 204A.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Wire Feed Welding qualification (certification) : GMAW, self-shielded and gas-shielded (FCAW/FCAW-G) : Safe welding practices, personal protective equipment (PPE), material safety data sheets (MSDS), defects, equipment and weld procedures. Laboratory includes certification testing and practice.",
      "notes": [
        "A fee will be charged for third-party laboratory testing. Students may be charged a material fee. Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE). Course study under this section may be repeated one hundred times."
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 205",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "205",
      "title": "Introduction to Welding",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to welding: Survey of manual processes (SMAW, GTAW, Oxygen-acetylene welding and cutting) and semi-automatic welding processes (wire feed, e.g. GMAW and FCAW), personal protective equipment (PPE), hazards associated with welding, identification of safe welding practices, and understanding a safety data sheets (SDS).",
      "notes": [
        "Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE)."
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-205",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 211A",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "211A",
      "title": "Shielded Metal Arc Welding I (SMAW)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Shielded Metal Arc Welding I (SMAW) (AKA: \"Stick\", \"Arc\"): Introductory level SMAW including welding safety, process theory, electrode selection, electricity, weld symbols, laboratory manipulation on closed-root on steel welding with E6010 and E7018 electrodes.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-211a",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 211B",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "211B",
      "title": "Shielded Metal Arc Welding II (Intermediate)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 211A.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Shielded Metal Arc Welding II (SMAW) (AKA \"Stick\", \"Arc\"): Intermediate level SMAW including welding and shop safety, process theory, electrode selection, electricity, weld symbols, material prep, laboratory manipulation: closed and open-root steel welding with E6010 and E7018 electrodes.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-211b",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 211C",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "211C",
      "title": "Shielded Metal Arc Welding III, (Open Root)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 211B or Instructor's approval.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Shielded Metal Arc Welding III (Stick): Advanced SMAW including welding safety, Carbon Arc cutting, proficiency in weld quality, joint fit-up, and Open-Root welding on steel plates with E6010 and 7018 electrodes. Students will have the opportunity to take American Welding Society (AWS) Certification tests.",
      "notes": [
        "Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE)."
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 211D",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "211D",
      "title": "Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Certification)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 211A.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Certification: Safe welding practices, personal protective equipment (PPE), material safety data sheets (MSDS), Code, defects, equipment and welder qualifications procedures. Laboratory includes welder qualification (certification) testing under AWS D1.1 and practice.",
      "notes": [
        "A fee will be charged for third-party laboratory testing. Students may be charged a material fee. Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE). Course study under this section may be repeated one hundred times."
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/laney-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld/#weld-211d",
          "subject": "WELD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 215A",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "215A",
      "title": "Welding Processes for ECT Technicians: Arc Welding",
      "units": ".75",
      "hours": ".25 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "ECT 013.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Survey of various welding processes (SMAW, GTAW, GMAW): Personal protective equipment (PPE), hazards associated with welding, identification of safe welding practices, and review of Safety Data Sheets (SDS).",
      "notes": [
        "Not open to students who have completed WELD 215."
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 215B",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "215B",
      "title": "Brazing and Soldering for ECT Technicians",
      "units": ".5",
      "hours": ".25 hours lecture, .75 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 215A or WELD 205.",
      "corequisite": "WELD 215A or WELD 205.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Basic principles and skills for Oxygen Acetlyene Welding: Oxygen-acetylene welding, brazing (steel plate and copper pipe) and soldering (copper pipe); safe welding practices, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE); and hands-on welding practice.",
      "notes": [
        "Not open to students who have completed WELD 215."
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 230",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "230",
      "title": "Introduction to Welding Metallurgy",
      "units": "2",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Welding metallurgy theory: Bonding, crystalline structures, phase diagram (Thermodynamics), kinetics, solidification, defects, strength, strengthening mechanisms.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 231A",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "231A",
      "title": "Pipe Welding with SMAW (1G-R)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 211C.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Theory and practical application of pipe joint preparation and design: Open-root 1G-R, analysis of joint configuration, plasma and flame cutting of pipes, electrode selections, pipe welding print and welding symbols, SMAW pipe joints, non-destructive and destructive test and qualitative concepts of evaluation as found in industry standards.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 231B",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "231B",
      "title": "Pipe Welding with SMAW (5G)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 231A.",
      "advisory": "MATH 220G or MATH 221.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Continuation of WELD 231A: Theory and practical application of pipe joint preparation, design, and welding open-root 5G, analysis of joint configuration, plasma and flame cutting of pipes, electrode selections, pipe welding print and welding symbols, SMAW pipe joints, non-destructive and destructive test and qualitative concepts of evaluation as found in industry standards.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 231C",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "231C",
      "title": "Pipe Welding with SMAW (6G + 2G)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 231B.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Theory and practical application of pipe joint preparation and design: Open-root 6G and 2G, analysis of joint configuration, plasma and flame cutting of pipes, electrode selections, pipe welding print and welding symbols, SMAW pipe joints, non-destructive and destructive test and qualitative concepts of evaluation as found in industry standards.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 231D",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "231D",
      "title": "Pipe Welding with SMAW (Certification)",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 4 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "WELD 231A.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Theory and practical application of pipe joint preparation and design: Open-root groove welds, analysis of joint configuration, plasma and flame cutting of pipes, electrode selections, pipe welding print and welding symbols, SMAW pipe joints, non-destructive and destructive test and qualitative concepts of evaluation as found in industry standards.",
      "notes": [
        "A fee will be charged for third-party laboratory testing. Students may be charged a material fee. Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE)."
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 240",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "240",
      "title": "Introduction to Weld Inspection",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture, 3 hours lab",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Basic code interpretation and nondestructive test methods theory: Ultrasonic Testing (UT) Magnetic Particle (MAG) Die Penetrant Visual Inspection.",
      "notes": [
        "Students must provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE)."
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 255",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "255",
      "title": "Survey Course for the Skilled Trades",
      "units": ".5",
      "hours": "1.5 hours lab",
      "corequisite": "MACH 255, CARP 255, WDTEC 255.",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to the skilled trades WELDING: covers safety, career opportunities, and hands on experience. Part of a four part series trades survey class including Machining 255, Carpentry 255, Wood Technology 255.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "WELD 466M",
      "subject": "WELD",
      "number": "466M",
      "title": "Work Experience in Welding Technology",
      "units": "1-4",
      "hours": "3 - 12 hours lab",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "Supervised employment providing opportunities in Welding or a related field: Develop desirable work habits, become a productive, responsible individual, and extend education experience with on the job training. A maximum of 14 units may be earned during one enrollment period.",
      "notes": [
        "Course study under this section may be repeated sixteen times."
      ],
      "offered": []
    }
  ]
}