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2016-2017 University Catalog 
    
2016-2017 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Professional Flight Technology, BS


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About the Program

Purdue offers a bachelor’s degree in professional flight that provides you with a larger perspective of the aviation industry. Your classes range from how an airplane is built to decision-making in the airline industry. You will learn by flying in our state-of-art fleet and matching simulators, and from aviation professionals with significant industry experience. The School of Aviation and Transportation Technology encourages you to obtain the highest level of medical and student certificates possible during your time at Purdue.

Flight (Professional Flight Technology) Website

Degree Requirements and Supplemental Information

The full Program Requirements for 2016-17 Professional Flight Technology  include all Supplemental Information and selective lists of those categories which a student must fulfill in order to earn their degree. These are intended to be printer-friendly, but include less descriptive course detail.

Please see below for program requirements and the necessary degree fulfillments.

AVFT
120 credits for graduation

Departmental/Program Major Courses (112 credits)


Other Departmental /Program Course Requirements (52 credits)


Electives (8 credits)


  • Free Electives - Credit Hours: 8.00

University Core Requirements


Program Requirements


(201610)

16 Credits


14 Credits


15 Credits


Spring 2nd Year


Fourth Semester

15 Credits


Fall 3rd Year


Fifth Semester

14 Credits


16 Credits


Fall 4th Year


Seventh Semester

  • Thematic Area Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Economics Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Advanced English Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Technical Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Free Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00

16 Credits


Spring 4th Year


Eighth Semester

14 Credits


Note


120 semester credits required for Bachelor of Science degree.

2.0 Graduation GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.

Degree Requirements


The student is ultimately responsible for knowing and completing all degree requirements.

Degree Works is knowledge source for specific requirements and completion

Purdue policy states that a student may attempt a course no more than three times. An attempt is defined as all courses displayed on a student transcript having grades of (including, but not limited to) A, B, C, D, E, F, W, WF, I and IF.

Foreign Language Courses


Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program.  For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor:

American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Critical Course


The ♦ course is considered critical. A Critical Course is one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.

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