2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Jul 03, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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CONST 198 Work-Based Learning (3 credits)



Prerequisite Enrollment in the Construction Management program and instructor permission.

Course Description
Students will pursue an organized career path plan by obtaining construction management work experience in their chosen area of interest. This class requires a 2.0 minimum grade to enroll in subsequent Construction Management courses.

Course Content
Construction management workplace
Construction management workplace objectives
Career action plans

Student Outcomes
  1. Obtain construction management work experience in their area of interest through volunteering, job shadowing, interning, and/or agreeing to be evaluated by their current supervisor.
  2. Set written workplace learning objectives, develop a written plan for accomplishing these objectives, document the learning process, and assess their success in reaching the objectives.
  3. Write a career path plan communicating where they want to be in their careers five years in the future and the steps they will take to make it happen.


Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: 

1. Planning and Organization: Research, implement, and evaluate construction processes using project planning methods and tools.

Effective Communication

Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.

 

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 90
Total Contact Hours 90

Potential Methods
Paper
Portfolio
Self-evaluation
Peer-evaluation
Supervisor evaluation
Oral presentation
Project - individual



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