Degrees and Requirements

Aviation Management

Aviation Management at La Roche University is offered through a Consortium Agreement with Community College of Beaver County (CCBC).   Students will be full-time at La Roche, with some of their credits each semester being completed online through CCBC.  Upon completion of their Associates degree at CCBC, students become eligible for La Roche’s abbreviated Core Curriculum.  Students who do not earn this Associates degree must complete La Roche’s full Core Curriculum.

The student is responsible for making arrangements towards, and all costs associated with flight time towards certifications and ratings with the a flight provider.  

The Aviation Management B.S. program has three tracks:

1.  Professional Pilot Track
2.  Advanced Piloting Track
3.  Air Traffic Control Track

All tracks will require:

• Complete  Business Core, Business Skills courses, and College Core
• Complete minimum 120 overall credits
         ** Students wanting ROTC would graduate with more than the above number of total credits.

Professional Pilot track:

• Complete 42 credits of Aviation Management (Professional Pilot Track) Major Requirements and 3-4 credits of Aviation Management (Professional Pilot Track) Major Electives

Advanced Piloting track:

• Complete 42 credits of Aviation Management (Professional Pilot Track) Major Requirements and 3-4 credits of Aviation Management (Professional Pilot Track) Major Electives

Air Traffic Control track:

• Complete 61 credits of Aviation Management (Air Traffic Control Track) Major Requirements

Summary of Requirements

Advanced Piloting Track: 35 credits

• AVIP120

  AVIP120
  

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• AVIP180

  AVIP180
  

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• AVIP190

  AVIP190
  

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• AVIP202

  AVIP202
  

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• AVIP204

  AVIP204
  

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• AVIP215

  AVIP215
  

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• AVIP220

  AVIP220
  

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• AVIP225

  AVIP225
  

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• AVIP250

  AVIP250
  

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• AVIP270

  AVIP270
  

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• AVIP275

  AVIP275
  

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Advanced Piloting Track Major Electives: Select 2

• AVIP280

  AVIP280
  

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• AVIP285

  AVIP285
  

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• AVIP288

  AVIP288
  

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Air Traffic Control Track: 61 credits

• AVIC160

  AVIC160
  

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• AVIC180

  AVIC180
  

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• AVIC200

  AVIC200
  

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• AVIC235

  AVIC235
  

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• AVIC238

  AVIC238
  

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• AVIC239

  AVIC239
  

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• AVIC247

  AVIC247
  

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• AVIC248

  AVIC248
  

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• AVIC251

  AVIC251
  

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• AVIC252

  AVIC252
  

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• AVIC256

  AVIC256
  

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• AVIC258

  AVIC258
  

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• AVIC260

  AVIC260
  

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• AVIP120

  AVIP120
  

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Business Core Requirements (Av Mgmt): 48 credits

• ACCT2003

  ACCOUNTING I

  ACCT2003
  ACCOUNTING I

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  The first of a two-course introductory financial accounting sequence that examines financial accounting from the viewpoint of preparers and users of financial statements. This course focuses on a basic introduction to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles along with the principles and concepts of recording, processing, and reporting accounting information. Topics include the accounting cycle, including financial statement preparation; merchandising operations, including inventory systems and cost flow assumptions; special journals; internal control systems; cash and bank reconciliations; and receivables and uncollectible accounts.

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• ACCT2004

  ACCOUNTING II

  ACCT2004
  ACCOUNTING II

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  PREREQUISITE: ACCT2003. The second of a two-course introductory financial accounting sequence that examines financial accounting from the viewpoint of preparers and users of financial statements. This course focuses on a continuation of basic Generally Accepted Accounting Principles along with the principles and concepts of recording, processing, reporting, using, and analyzing accounting information. Topics include long-lived assets, current and long-term liabilities, partnership and corporate equity transactions, the statement of cash flows, and ratio analysis.

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  ACCT2003

• ACCT2013

  MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING

  ACCT2013
  MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  PREREQUISITE: ACCT2003. An examination of the internal uses of accounting information, this course focuses on the relationship between accounting data and management’s information needs in support of planning, controlling, motivating, and decision making. Topics include costing systems and behaviors; product costs, period costs, and overhead application methods; cost-volume-profit analysis; budgeting; standards and variance analysis; and managerial decision making.

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  ACCT2003

• ADMG1005

  MACROECONOMICS

  ADMG1005
  MACROECONOMICS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An introductory economics course focusing on the field of macroeconomics, including government spending, money, inflation, unemployment and taxes. Also included are brief sections on microeconomic and economic systems.

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• ADMG1006

  MICROECONOMICS

  ADMG1006
  MICROECONOMICS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An introductory economics course focusing on the field of microeconomics. Price, cost and production theory are covered in relation to competitive, monopolistic and oligopolistic industry structure. The field of labor economics is treated in some detail. Some advanced macroeconomics topics are also covered.

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• ADMG1018

  FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT

  ADMG1018
  FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An introduction to the three major schools of management thought: the classical, the behavioral and the management science schools. The major emphasis is on the fundamentals of each school of thought and also on the integrative approach to management, drawing on the systems and contingency approaches.

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• ADMG2009

  BUSINESS LAW I

  ADMG2009
  BUSINESS LAW I

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This coure is an introduction to law and legal procedure. Contracts, their nature and requisites formation, operations, interpretation, discharge and remedies are discussed.

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• ADMG2018

  ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

  ADMG2018
  ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  PREREQUISITE: ADMG1018 This course provides an in-depth examination of organizational behavior from a macro-perspective. This course includes a review of the research on organizational structure, technology and the environment, as well as their relationship and the implications for effective organizational design. Also included in the course are discussions of organizational goals and effectiveness, organizational culture, organizational conflict and politics, and alternative organizational structure in the U.S. and abroad.

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  ADMG1018

• ADMG2025

  HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION

  ADMG2025
  HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  A study of the basics of human resources management including planning, recruitment selection, motivation and performance appraisal. Also treated are salary benefits systems and an introduction to EEOC and OSHA law.

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• ADMG4020

  OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

  ADMG4020
  OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  Study is given to the basic operations, functions and procedures. An analytical approach is utilized with emphasis on problem solving. Modern management science techniques such as linear programming, PERT and inventory control models are presented.

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  Reserved for JR/SR Only

• ADMG4055

  SEMINAR - BUSINESS POLICY

  ADMG4055
  SEMINAR - BUSINESS POLICY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An intensive culmination and synthesization of the study of administration and management consisting of readings, case study and class discussion. The primary emphasis is on the development of the skills of strategic analysis from the viewpoint of the general manager.

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  Reserved for Senior Only

• FINC3032

  FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

  FINC3032
  FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  PREREQUISITE: ACCT2004 This course introduces external sources and processes of finance. Topics include time value of money, term structure of interest rates, risk return trade-off, discounted cash flow, ratio analysis, weighted average cost of capital, and capital budgeting.

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  ACCT2004

• FINC3036

  FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

  FINC3036
  FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  PREREQUISITE: ADMG1005 AND ACCT2004 This course will provide an understanding of various types of financial markets and institutions that exist and operate in the U.S. economy. Topics include the Federal Reserve System, Monetary Polcy, and Interest Rates along with the impact at all three have on the state of the economy.

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  ADMG1005 & ACCT2004

• INMT3039

  INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MGMT

  INMT3039
  INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MGMT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An introduction to international business management with particular emphasis on the field of international finance and economics. In addition, the course deals with problems in the area of finance, marketing, production and organization, both from the perspective of the multinational corporation and the domestic corporation trading in international markets.

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• ISTC1010

  DIGITAL LITERACY

  ISTC1010
  DIGITAL LITERACY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course addresses information and technological literacy in the digital age. Students will develop cognitive and technological competencies in both the discovery and evaluation of information, as well as the creation and dissemination of content, all within a digital context. Students will be introduced to a set of basic digital tools, but the focus will be placed on developing the ability to adapt to new and changing technologies in the future.

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• MRKT2021

  MARKETING MANAGEMENT

  MRKT2021
  MARKETING MANAGEMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  A basic study of marketing systems in the American economy. This course includes, identifying the activities involved in the flow of goods among manufacturers, brokers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers. The nature of demand, buyer behavior, costs and pricing, sales strategies, promotions and techniques are presented.Cross-listed with ADMG2021

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Business Skills Component (Av Mgmt): 9 credits

• ADMG3024

  PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION

  ADMG3024
  PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course is designed to provide students in the professional areas with training in preparing and giving professional presentations. Students will develop skills in audience/client assessment, research, presentation design and development, using presentation tools and presentation evaluation.

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  Reserved for JR/SR Only

• MATH1030

  CALCULUS FOR BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

  MATH1030
  CALCULUS FOR BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  PREREQUISITE: MATH1010 A one-semester course in the differential and integral calculus of functions of a single variable. Emphasis on concepts and the skills of differentiation and integration with applications from Administration, Economics and Managerial Sciences.

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  MATH1010

• MATH1040

  PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

  MATH1040
  PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  PREREQUISITE: MATH1010 The study of the fundamentals of probability theory with applications to natural and social sciences as well as to mathematics. Discrete and continuous distributions, sampling theory, linear correlation, regression, statistical inference, estimation and analysis of variance are included.

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  MATH1010

Professional Pilot Major Electives: Select 2

• AVIP250

  AVIP250
  

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• AVIP280

  AVIP280
  

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• AVIP285

  AVIP285
  

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Professional Pilot Track: 45-46 credits

• AVIP120

  AVIP120
  

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• AVIP160

  AVIP160
  

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• AVIP170

  AVIP170
  

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• AVIP180

  AVIP180
  

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• AVIP190

  AVIP190
  

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• AVIP205

  AVIP205
  

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• AVIP215

  AVIP215
  

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• AVIP220

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• AVIP225

  AVIP225
  

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• AVIP270

  AVIP270
  

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• AVIP275

  AVIP275
  

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