The Fine Woodworking department offers certificates and a degree to fit your goals, whether pursuing a career or fine-tuning your expertise. Each course will challenge you to develop woodworking skills and specific traditional and contemporary techniques as you progress through the program.
Build technical expertise in focused areas of woodworking through our certificate programs. Each certificate requires students to follow a set of courses in a specific progression to strategically strengthen their skillset and knowledge as makers of furniture, cabinets, turned objects, or stringed instruments.
This degree is comprised chiefly of woodworking courses plus 15 credits from general education courses.
The Fine Woodworking Program will show you the breadth of the woodworking industry. We will prepare you to work as a technical professional or project manager, or to work toward becoming a small business owner. Here are just a few of the careers in this field:
- Fine Furniture Making, Furniture Restorer
- Cabinetmaking, Machine Operations and Tooling
- Lumber Mill Operator, Wood Turner
- Carver, Mill Worker, Wood Finisher
- CNC operator, Designer / Production manager
- Lutherie Artisan, Lutherie Technician, Lutherie Restorer
Becoming a student at RRCC prepares you for transfer to a four-year university, prepares you for an exciting new career or can enhance your current skills.
Red Rocks Community College offers courses in Arvada, Lakewood and online as well as hybrid courses.
In collaboration with Colorado 4-year schools, Colorado has developed a statewide guaranteed transfer program to create a seamless transfer.
Becoming a student at RRCC prepares you for transfer to a four-year university, prepares you for an exciting new career or can enhance your current skills.