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AVIA 310Human Factors in Aviation

Units
0.50
Subject
Aviation

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2025–26.

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 3 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

An exploration of aviation non-technical skills and their impact on aviation safety and operational performance. Components explore workload, management, situational awareness, decision-making, and crew co-ordination.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Must have completed the following:
      • AVIA100 - Introduction to Aviation (0.50)
    • Students must be in level 2A or higher

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

Reviewed on UW Flow

58% liked it86% easy50% useful

From 19 ratings and 7 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Honestly, this course was pretty boring and I'm not sure if there was enough content to effectively spread it out over the entire term. That said it was interesting and it is good to have an overall idea of Human Factors. Tests were reasonable but a bit difficult since they were open book, but the presentations and paper were easy.

    Dec 2022 · liked it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Dry, uninteresting pseudoscience. I would've appreciated it if the psychology was more greatly applied to CRM procedures, but everything unfortunately stayed theoretical.

    May 2016 · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Taken in F25 with Gulnaz Bulbul. This course is not hard. Its cardinal sin is being a required course for aviation students despite being remarkably useless. I feel like PPL ground school human factors was more relevant to flying than anything taught in this course. Gulnaz wasn't a bad professor but she was cold and distant. Would not recommend as an elective.

    Nov 2025 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Very light workload, with two easy midterms, one group video project, and a few bonus mark opportunities. Barely put any effort in and still finished with a good grade.

    Apr 2025 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • i forgot this class existed half the time, it was poorly mismanaged but easy nonetheless.

    Nov 2023 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

One post or comment in 1 thread mentions AVIA 310, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2017

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