Wood Technology is OPEN during Covid-19 for in-person and hybrid-online instruction. Classes are only $46 per unit. Financial aid may be available.
*Fall Semester 2022 starts August 22 but you can register/enroll now!! There are no Summer classes this year. Click here for how/when to enroll and/or send us an email if you’re having difficulty enrolling.
Continuing Students: If you have enrolled and received a grade (including W or I) in a class within the last two semesters, use your current User ID and Password to access your Student Center. Login & Browser Help: http://web.peralta.edu/it/student-passport. You can search for current class schedule here. For Fall 2022 schedule, Wood Technology starts on page 192. Don’t follow the links on the bottom “Explore our departments” it will just bring you back to this page!
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Attention Matriculating Students:
Career Technical Education counseling is available for students in Wood Technology. If you are a matriculating student and need to make an education plan or apply for your certificate, please call 510-464-3152 to schedule an appointment.
Learn cabinet and furniture making at Laney College
The Wood Technology department at Laney College offers daytime, evening and weekend classes for beginning and experienced woodworkers. You can begin a new and rewarding career as a professional woodworker, enrich your life with a creative and useful hobby and hone your professional skills to a new level!
Courses are taught by working professionals in a well equipped, state-of-the-art wood shop. Class sizes are small and emphasize safety, as well as technique and procedure. Traditional and contemporary woodworking skills are taught in a hands-on, project based format.
Classes include design and construction for the woodworking professional (one and two-year programs), computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD-CAM), traditional Japanese hand tools and joinery, studio furniture-making, beginning and intermediate classes for the hobbyist as well as the opportunity to do special projects.