Program Map

ESYS: Consumer Technology - Certificate of Achievement

Award Type: Certificate of Achievement
Effective Date: Spring 2021
Learning and Career Pathway
  • Industrial Technology & Automotive

This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

I'm ready to get started. What do I do next?

  1. Review this program map to get an overview of the required courses
  2. Meet with a counselor to develop your customized student education plan www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling
  3. Use DegreeWorks, an online student education planning tool, to track your progress toward graduation www.chabotcollege.edu/admissions/degreeworks
Description:
Students develop the technical design skills required for many consumer technology technician positions. This program prepares students to provide home computer or home entertainment systems support. The focus is on developing core electronic systems skills to fulfill these goals.
What can I do with this Major?
Students who complete these required courses will have career opportunities with firms that provide retail sales, customer service representative, home technology systems, home-theater systems, computer hardware support, computer service, and commercial audio/video installation.

Critical Course Prerequisite for Other Courses Prerequisite Required Required for Major GE General Education

Semester 1
 
7 units
ESYS 50
Introduction to Electronic Systems Technology (Active)
4.0
ESYS 63
IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software (Active)
3.0
Semester 2
 
3 units
ESYS 55
IoT & Microcontroller Systems (Active)
3.0
Summer 1
 
2 units
ESYS 51
Fabrication Techniques for Electronic Systems Technology (Active)1
2.0
1ESYS 51 only offered in the summer
Semester 3
 
6 units
ESYS 54
Analog Circuits and Wireless Communications (Active)
3.0
ESYS 57
PLCs & Process Control Systems (Active)
3.0
Total Units: 18.0
This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.