Aviation: Professional Pilot Track, B.S.

Major Requirements

Aviation majors must earn a minimum grade of C in aviation courses to be considered passing and move to the next requirement.

Major Support

SPECIALIZED AVIATION ELECTIVES

Students are not required to complete all electives listed, but may choose to do so for additional training.

Additional Requirements

• Maintaining less than a 2.25 GPA, or failure to complete the required math sequence each semester will result in academic probation.
• The maximum number of aviation hours accepted by transfer is twelve.
• A maximum of nine hours of aviation may be accomplished through advanced standing.
• A total of 40 hours of OU coursework must be completed to receive a baccalaureate degree.
• A total of 55 hours of liberal arts coursework is required.
• A maximum of 32 hours of correspondence courses will be accepted.

SPECIALIZED AVIATION ELECTIVES

Students are not required to complete all electives listed below, but may choose to do so for additional training.

General Education and College Requirements

Courses taken to fulfill the University General Education Requirements must be chosen from the approved General Education course list published in the Class Schedule or at http://www.ou.edu/gened/courses.

UNIVERSITY-WIDE GENERAL EDUCATION (MINIMUM 40 HOURS) AND COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS

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Students who have completed two years of high school language are exempt from the general education language requirement. 

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Core I—Substitute: MATH 1823, Calculus & Analytic Geom. I 

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Two courses, 6 hours, of Core III Social Science are required and one course must be P SC 1113. ECON 1113 or ECON 1123 will meet the other 3 hours of this requirement under Basic Business.

Free Electives

11 hours if exempt from language; 1 hour if language must be taken. Free electives may include specialized aviation courses. A combined maximum of five hours of physical education activity courses may be used to meet degree requirements.

Information Concerning General Rules, Regulations and Minimum Requirements for Undergraduate Degrees

Total Hours: A minimum of 120 semester hours acceptable toward graduation must be completed.
Upper-Division Hours: A minimum of 40 upper- division semester hours acceptable toward graduation must be completed. OU courses numbered 3000 or above are upper- division. Transfer work is counted as lower-division or upper-division credit depending on the level at which it was offered at the institution where it was earned. Two-year college work is accepted only as lower-division credit.
Senior Institution Hours: A minimum of 60 semester hours applied toward graduation must be earned at senior (4-year) institutions.
Residency:

• A minimum of two semesters must be spent in residence in the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences.
• At least 36 of the last 48 hours must be completed in residence at OU.

Individual Studies: No more than six hours of independent study or directed readings may be applied toward degree requirements.
Grade Point Averages: Students must earn a minimum overall 2.25 for each of the following: Combined Retention GPA (all college grades), OU Retention GPA, GPA for all major courses, and GPA for all major courses taken at OU.

Suggested Semester Plan of Study

• For those students who did not successfully complete two years of the same language in high school, ten hours of free electives will be replaced with two semesters of the same college-level language.
• This plan of study should not be used in lieu of academic advisement.