Barbering - AAS
This program prepares students for a career in the professional barbering industry. Students learn the basics of haircutting, styling, shaving, scalp care, shampooing, and successful barbershop management. Hands-on practice is incorporated with every lesson to shape student confidence and performance. On the barbershop floor, students build skills and become well versed in the latest techniques and trends while providing services to the public under the supervision of an experienced, licensed barber instructor.
Careers
Barbering is an industry-trending career with excitement and creativity for serving clients. Barbers transform clients’ appearance to help them achieve the latest on-trend look that best represents them. To ensure public health and safety, barbers must be licensed in the state they practice.
Institution Wide Outcomes
Hutchinson Community College is committed to a tradition of excellence in education that prepares students for success in academics, careers, and life.
To achieve this goal, HutchCC has established five Institution-Wide Outcomes (IWO) that are embedded into all academic courses. These outcomes are designed to equip graduates with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
- Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
- Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various methods.
- Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
- Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
- Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.
Program Outcomes
- Artistically and skillfully illustrate men’s haircutting, shampooing and scalp treatments, and styling on all clientele types.
- Achieve hair color and chemical processes.
- Model correct application of facial massaging and shaving, skin care, straight razor techniques, and manicuring.
- Employ barbershop business success skills including marketing, customer service, sale of retail products, and developing client relations.
- Comply with proper safety and sanitation procedures.
- Demonstrate appropriate workplace professionalism.
Accreditation
Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
