Architecture &
Construction
seek Out special Programs
CTsos
Many Texas schools offer innovative programs to
one of the best ways to acquire
prepare students for specific career areas. These
experience in your chosen
include career and technical education (CTE)
career is by joining a career
programs, academies, and magnet schools. Once
and technical student
you’ve decided on a career direction, ask your
organizations (cTso). In
these are just a sampling of careers available in the counselor about special programs in your area that
architecture & construction, the
cluster. Go to OSCAR, O*NET, or another resource to may provide related experiences in your chosen career.
most helpful cTsos are:
investigate other careers. Samuel Odamah, an undergraduate student in
architecture enrolled at the University of Texas at
• Family, Career and
Create Your TAP Arlington, found his career calling at Dallas’s Skyline Community Leaders
Once you have a better idea of your interests and Career Development Center, a high school with career
of America (FCCLA)
abilities, you are ready to plan for high school and programs in a number of different fields.
www.texasfccla.org
beyond. The Texas Achievement Plan, or TAP, is your “Skyline is one of the few schools in the country
• SkillsUSA
plan for preparing for the career of your choice. that offer programs in architecture,” Odamah says. www.txskillsusa.org
“Students first choose a cluster,” says Terry Brock, “In some careers, Skyline students could even get
• Texas Technology
“not a particular occupational goal. In the eighth grade professional certifications or licenses right in high
Student Association (TSA)
a student might choose Health Science and then later school. It was a great place because you could find out
www.texastsa.org
become interested in a narrower field such as surgery whether you really wanted to enter a career.”
or radiology technology.” Odamah says that the career cluster system at
The program of study you choose—your plan— Skyline taught him the value of planning for his career
does not stop with graduation from high school, and his life. “We learned about planning ahead,” he
Brock emphasizes. “A student could then pursue says. “Those who plan things ahead of time don’t have
a two-year degree as an x-ray technician or a to catch up. It’s just a matter of what a person wants
four-year degree as a radiologist.” out of life. Planning gives you a better
You should set up a TAP that takes you through platform for success.”
career preparation after high school, revising your
blueprint as needed as you go along. If your career plans
include college study, ask your counselor about tests
required for admission to college, such as the PSAT,
SAT, or ACT.
In 1996,
Texas TecH unIversITY
college of arcHITecTure became THe fIrsT
arcHITecTure educaTIon program In THe
naTIon To offer a 173-credIT-Hour masTer
of arcHITecTure professIonal degree.
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