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Program Overview

In this warm and humid climate, a HVAC tech is a valued and well paid career! This program is designed to teach the student all aspects of installation, repair, and maintenance of commercial and domestic, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems.

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Architecture and Construction career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Architecture and Construction career cluster.

Program Structure and Courses

• This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of five occupational completion points.
  
  This program is comprised of courses which have been assigned course numbers in the SCNS (Statewide Course Numbering System) in accordance with Section 1007.24 (1), F.S. Career and Technical credit shall be awarded to the student on a transcript in accordance with Section 1001.44(3)(b), F.S. 
  
  The following table illustrates the postsecondary program structure:

  Course #	OCP	Course Name	Hours
  ACR0000	A	Introduction to HVAC/R	250
  ACR0001	B	HVAC/R Fundamentals	250
  ACR0012	C	HVAC/R Service Practices	250
  ACR0013	D	HVAC/R Intermediate Service Practices	250
  ACR0044	E	HVAC/R Advanced Service Practices (formerly 'Air-Conditioning, Refrigeration and Heating Technician')	350
  ACR0045	E	OR HVAC/R Advanced Commercial and Industrial Service Practices (formerly ‘Refrigeration Mechanic’)	350

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