Wood Technology Avocational Courses
Woodworking for the Home-Based Enthusiast
Enrich your life with a creative and useful hobby. Laney Wood Tech offers classes for beginners and intermediate-level amateurs. Courses are offered in the afternoon, evenings, and weekends.
Classes emphasize safety as well as technique and procedure. Both traditional and contemporary woodworking skills are taught in a hands-on, project-based format.
Our staff of professional instructors have a wide range of woodworking experience and are able to focus on the individual needs of their students.
These courses are all NOT a part of the Wood Tech Major/Certificate Core Curriculum:
Course # | Course Title | Units |
WDTEC 250A | Introduction to Furniture Making | 4 |
WDTEC 250B | Introduction to Furniture Making | 4 |
WDTEC 271 | Artisans in Wood I | 4 |
WDTEC 272 | Artisans in Wood II | 4 |
WDTEC 210A | Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery I | 2 |
WDTEC 210B | Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery II | 2 |
WDTEC 210C | Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery III | 2 |
WDTEC 210D | Small Yard and Garden Structures | 2 |
Contact Us
Department Chair
Myron Franklin
Email: mfranklin@peralta.edu
Dean
Alejandria Tomas
Email: atomas@peralta.edu
Learning & Career Pathways
Building & Skilled Trades
Division
Career & Technical Education
Location
Building G, Room 150
(Lower Level, G-150)
You can enter our shop from Fallon St (across from BART Lake Merritt Station parking lot) or from the campus side, follow this Google Map link.
**For Deliveries and Pickups – WARNING DO NOT use the listed address for Laney College! This link will guide you to the closest location for large deliveries.
Call us: (510) 464-3446
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