This document presents an outline for a 135-hour course designed to provide the student with all the foundations necessary to become employable in the automotive air conditioning and heating trade. The course of study includes an orientation to the world of work, the elementary physics of air conditioning and heating, and laboratory experiments which stress the manipulative skills of testing, diagnosis, repair, and maintenance of automotive air conditioning and related systems. The behavioral objectives and performance standards necessary for a person to become an automotive air conditioning technician are specified. A twelve-item bibliography, a list of five films, and a Quinmester post test sample are included. (KP)