Entry Level Automotive Collision and Refinishing Program

If you have any questions about how a course or program is delivered, you can check the Trades website, email the Department Chair or email the Trades & Apprenticeship office:

Apprenticeship: apprenticeship@okanagan.bc.ca
Foundation and General Interest: trades@okanagan.bc.ca

This 36-week (1080 hour) program has been designed to take a student with little or no previous experience in the automotive collision repair trades and supply them with the necessary skills to seek employment in this industry as an apprentice. Courses in this program follow the Industry training authority's automotive Collision and Refinishing common core level 1 and will introduce students to the many aspects of the automotive collision repair trades with a focus on developing practical skills.

Graduates of this program will receive Industry Training Authority (ITA) credit for Automotive Collision and Refinishing common core level 1 technical training and will also receive 625 work-based hours towards either their Automotive Collision Repair apprenticeship or 450 hours toward their Automotive Refinishing apprenticeship but not both.

Admissions Requirements

• B.C. secondary school graduation, or equivalent, or 19 years of age and out of secondary school for at least one year as of the first day of classes.
• English 10 with minimum 50% or alternatives.
• Math requirement:

A minimum of 50% in any of:

• Mathematics 10
• Apprenticeship and Workplace Mathematics 10
• Workplace Mathematics 10
• Foundations of Mathematics and Pre-Calculus 10
• Adult Basic Education MATH 071 and MATH 072

The TEA mathematics Test scores are only good for two (2) years.

Applicants who have not satisfied the Math requirement within the last seven (7) years must write the Trades Entrance Assessment (TEA) Mathematics test and must receive a minimum of 50%.

Program Outline

Program Schedule: September to May

Textbooks: $194. 49 approximately

Graduation Requirement

Minimum passing grade is a GGA of seventy per cent (70%) with no less than fifty per cent (50%) per course.