BP070 - Bachelor of Applied Science (Aviation)

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Plan: BP070SIM - Bachelor of Applied Science (Aviation)
Campus: Singapore Inst of Management

Program delivery and structure

Approach to learning and assessment
Work integrated learning
Program structure
Program transition plan

Approach to learning and assessment

Overall, the teaching style you experience will be appropriate to the type of the course you are studying and to achieve the graduate capabilities designed into your program of study, thereby ensuring that you are employable when you graduate. You will be treated as an adult learner: you will take responsibility for your own learning in an adult and independent way.

You will be exposed to the effective use of educational technology, which will enable you to access resources so that you become an 'anytime' and lifelong learner.

As a student you will be exposed to not just teaching, but to a range of teaching and learning activities. Indeed, your interests are furthered by your own engagement in learning activities. This means that you have a responsibility for your own learning. You will therefore be involved in learning activities, many of which will be outside of class contact time. For many activities - even if you are a distance student - you will be working in teams: an environment which will simulate how you will work as a professional. These activities will develop many of the interpersonal skills you need in order to work effectively in the professional environment. These activities will be selected from the following:

  • Lectures, classes, and/or directed reading: these activities introduce you to essential content. They may also lead you to develop or improve certain appropriate skills;
  • Problem-based Learning: where you may be in a smaller tutorial groups with the aim of applying your knowledge through problem solving, simulating the professional work environment;
  • Assignments and projects: these may be problem based or research based, and may be undertaken in teams or individually. A written report is usually required. Assignments and projects provide you with opportunities to develop specified capabilities and also to demonstrate the level to which you have developed them;
  • Intensive workshops: as in professional practice, some learning may take place over a brief but intensive period. For example, your lecturer may be an expert in a certain discipline, but cannot attend for several hours a week over the duration of a semester. Your classes and support tutorials may be scheduled over 5 days. There will be opportunity for later interaction with your lecturer or a tutor.
  • Work Integrated Learning: you may have the opportunity to take learning activities which are closely linked to industry or simulate industry practice. If you are employed, then your final year aviation industry project may be based in your workplace, solving a problem for your employer;
  • Seminars: where you will report verbally to a student and staff group - again this is practice for the professional workplace. Seminars will give you a specific forum for putting into practice your communication skills, and improving them through use and feedback. Seminars also provide a professionally appropriate platform for developing and exercising skills of critical analysis;
  • Reflective writing: where you give yourself time to consider the learning processes and outcomes you have just experienced. You may consider and document questions such as: What have I learned by doing?; How my previous ideas/attitudes had to change?; What is still causing me difficulties?; What do I still need to learn?; What connections can be made with other knowledge? Reflection can also be used to records feelings, difficulties, ideas and inspirations;
  • Online and distance learning: depending on your location, you may study some or all of your courses at a distance. This means you will access courseware through hard copy sent to you or by way of RMIT's online resources. Learning guides will lead you through each course, and you will communicate with your 'lecturer' by email or other similar means through online learning facilities for each course.
  • Field trips: you will have the opportunity to visit various industrial establishments to see how they function and what they do. Field trips allow you to mesh your conceptual understanding with real application appropriate to the industry. Viewed in the light of application, the conceptual basis can be greatly strengthened;
  • Major project: where you propose, plan and execute a major project which addresses and solves a problem relevant to your studies or career aspirations. The project may be industry based, whether or not you are employed in the industry, and is the final stage of preparing you for the workplace.

Assessment will be varied, as it will be designed to assess your capabilities appropriate to a particular course. Your assessment may be made through the assessment of any of the learning activities listed immediately above, as well as through formal examination.

For further information please refer to the Assessment Policy.

Several courses in the program are delivered online, rather than on-campus, and you are likely to find that other courses transition to online delivery as you progress through the program.

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Work integrated learning

RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will:

  • undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
  • interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities;
  • complete these activities in real work contexts or situations; and in addition
  • these interactions and the work context provide a distinctive source of feedback to you to assist your learning.

Any or all of these aspects of a WIL experience may be simulated.

The Aviation Industry Project, AERO2488, (12 credit points) includes feedback from industry practitioners. This project will be undertaken either within the University, or within an external aviation company.  If you are currently employed, then your final year project may be based in your workplace, solving a problem of direct relevance to your employer.  All projects will emulate work that graduates could be expected to undertake early their careers in industry, with the highest possible level of realism.

Aviation Project Management, AERO2493, (12 credit points) will involve the management of a real or simulated aviation industry project.

Other courses contributing to WIL, using professional practices within the assessment items, include AERO2490 Airline Operations, AERO2497 Airport Planning and Management, and AERO2489 Air Cargo Management and Operations.

 

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Program Structure

To graduate you must complete the following:
 

All courses listed may not be available each semester

 

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This program consists of 288 Two Hundred Eighty Eight credit points

Complete the following Twenty (20) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Business Information Systems 12 ISYS2059 Singapore Inst of Management
Aviation Quality Systems 12 AERO2499 Singapore Inst of Management
Introduction to Management 12 BUSM4192 Singapore Inst of Management
Business Statistics 1 12 ECON1035 Singapore Inst of Management
Introduction to Aviation 12 AERO2483 Singapore Inst of Management
Introduction to Aircraft 12 AERO2484 Singapore Inst of Management
Airport/Airline Operations 12 AERO2496 Singapore Inst of Management
Sustainable Aviation and the Environment 12 AERO2487 Singapore Inst of Management
Human Factors in Aviation 12 AERO2500 Singapore Inst of Management
Aircraft Maintenance Management 12 AERO2486 Singapore Inst of Management
Aviation Industry Environment 12 AERO2498 Singapore Inst of Management
Aviation Safety and Security Systems 12 AERO2495 Singapore Inst of Management
Aircraft Systems 12 AERO2501 Singapore Inst of Management
Airline Operations 12 AERO2490 Singapore Inst of Management
Aircraft Airworthiness 12 AERO2585 Singapore Inst of Management
Aviation Strategy in the Global Context 12 AERO2492 Singapore Inst of Management
Aviation Project Management 12 AERO2493 Singapore Inst of Management
Aviation Industry Project 12 AERO2488 Singapore Inst of Management
Airport Planning and Management 12 AERO2497 Singapore Inst of Management
Air Cargo Management and Operations 12 AERO2489 Singapore Inst of Management
AND
Select and Complete Two (2) Courses from any:
University Elective
AND
Select and Complete Two (2) Courses from any:
Approved Business Course
 

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Program transition plan

2018

From 2018  AERO2494 Aviation Commercial Revenue Development will be replaced by AERO2585 Aircraft Airworthiness.

2017

This program was amended in 2017. The amended structure was implemented from Term 1 2017 for all students. All credits gained prior to these amendments will count towards the amended program plan.

The following Table advises students who have failed an old course as to the substitute course they should complete. Where a student has received credit transfer for an old course, this is considered equivalent to the substitute course listed.

Course(s) no longer offered Substitute course(s)
Course Title CP Course Title CP
AERO2285 Engineering, Society and Sustainability 12 ISYS2059 Business Computing 1 12
AERO2491 Managing the Engineering Environment 12 BUSM4192 Introduction to Management 12
MATH2238 Introduction to Probability and Statistics (previously known as "Statistics 1") 12 ECON1035 ECON1035 Business Statistics 1 12
OMGT2221 Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management 12   Approved business course 12

For any enrolment or transition advice regarding these changes, you should contact the Program Manager.

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