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Unit description
Enables students, via a case study approach, to critically analyse a range of contemporary issues affecting the broader aviation industry. This incorporates roles played by government, organisations and individuals in adapting to and/or driving such events.
Unit content
Topic 1 : Overview of the regulatory framework
Topic 2 : Airline business models
Topic 3 : Environmental impacts and mitigation
Topic 4 : Safety and security
Topic 5 : Flying a social media course
Topic 6 : Air transport and remote regions
Topic 7 : Human resources and employment relations in aviation
Topic 8 : Future careers in aviation
Topic 9 : Drones, big data and new technology
Topic 10 : Open skies, globalisation, new business models and future challenges
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | explain the differences between air and aviation law incorporating the importance of national sovereignty over airspace and to a number of international aviation conventions |
| 2 | evaluate various airline models and explain who makes up airline markets, and airline staff |
| 3 | critically examine the environmental impacts of air transport operations at global and local levels |
| 4 | explain what is meant by safety and also security in order to critically examine the differences between accidents, incidents and antecedents |
| 5 | discuss and evaluate the current and future roles of ICT and social media in the running of airlines, including a critical examination of other factors behind globalisation in international aviation |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- explain the differences between air and aviation law incorporating the importance of national sovereignty over airspace and to a number of international aviation conventions
- evaluate various airline models and explain who makes up airline markets, and airline staff
- critically examine the environmental impacts of air transport operations at global and local levels
- explain what is meant by safety and also security in order to critically examine the differences between accidents, incidents and antecedents
- discuss and evaluate the current and future roles of ICT and social media in the running of airlines, including a critical examination of other factors behind globalisation in international aviation
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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