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Course Information

Intro to Officership

Year: Freshmen 1st Semester
Course: MS 111
Credit Hrs: 1

This course introduces the student to issues and competencies that are central to a commissioned officer's responsibilities. These initial lessons establish a framework for understanding officership, leadership, and Army values.

Additionally, the semester addresses "life skills," including fitness, stress management and time management. The course is designed to provide accurate insight into the Army Profession and the officer's role within the Army.

Class meets weekly for one hour with co-requisite laboratory and one weekend field training exercise. No military obligation for non-scholarship students.

Basic Leadership

Year: Freshman 2nd Semester
Course: MS 112
Credit Hrs: 1

This course expands upon the fundamentals introduced in the previous term by focusing on basic leadership essentials such as:

  • problem solving
  • communications
  • briefings
  • effective writing
  • goal setting
  • techniques for improving listening and speaking skills
  • an introduction to counseling
  • physical fitness training
  • time management training.

The course is designed to build upon the experience of the first term and further broaden the introduction to the Army as well as to the leadership skills and the "life skills," needed by Army officers.

Class meets weekly for one hour with co-requisite laboratory and one weekend field training exercise.

MS111 recommended but not required as prerequisite; no military obligation for non- scholarship students.

Individual Leadership

Year: Sophomore 1st Semester
Course: MS 221
Credit Hrs: 2

This course introduces experiential examination of leadership essentials to include personal development of reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving skills, effective communication, and individual and team dynamics.

Students examine how leadership essentials, values, and ethics relate to officership as a profession. Students will also gain proficiency in land navigation with an emphasis on advanced map reading skills. The components of physical fitness and principals of exercise and introduced to students for them to develop a plan of action and set physical fitness goals.

Class meets weekly for two hours with co-requisite laboratory and one weekend field training exercise. MS 111 and MS 112 recommended but not required as prerequisites.

No military obligation for non-scholarship students.

Leadership and Teamwork

Year: Sophomore 2nd Semester
Course: MS 222
Credit Hrs: 2

This course continues the experiential examination of leadership, decision- making, and the group process introduced in the previous term.

Students examine how to build successful teams, methods for influencing action, effective communication in setting and achieving goals, the importance of timing decisions, and creativity in the problem solving process. Physical fitness training continues.

Class meets weekly for two hours with co-requisite laboratory and one weekend field training exercise.

MS111, MS112, MS221 recommended but not required as prerequisites. No military obligation for non-scholarship students.

Leadership and Problem Solving

Year: Junior 1st Semester
Course: MS 331
Credit Hrs: 3

The course focuses on experiential learning of leadership skills and the application of critical reasoning both in the classroom and during situational leadership labs.

Topics include:

  • application of problem solving theory
  • leadership development through evaluation and developmental feedback
  • a case study of the Profession of Arms using military history to teach Army operations

Class meets weekly for three hours with a co-requisite laboratory and one weekend field training exercise.

Leadership and Ethics

Year: Junior 2nd Semester
Course: MS 332
Credit Hrs: 3

This course continues to examine the role that communications, values, and ethics play in effective leadership.

Topics include:

  • ethical decision-making
  • consideration of others
  • leadership doctrine

Emphasis is on improving oral and written communication abilities. The course also prepares students to excel at the four-week Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC), "Warrior Forge," at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Class meets for three hours with co-requisite laboratory and one weekend field training exercise. Physical fitness training is also required.

Leadership and Management

Year: Senior 1st Semester
Course: MS 441
Credit Hrs: 3

This course develops student proficiency in planning and executing complex operations, functioning as a member of a straff, and mentoring subordinates.

Students explore:

  • training management
  • methods of effective staff collaboration
  • developmental counseling techniques

Students must complete a semester long Senior Leadership Project that requires them to plan, organize, collaborate, analyze, and demonstrate their leadership skills. The Senior Leadership Project is an intense practice of experiential learning; students are responsible for bringing all previous ROTC education into play by running the cadet battalion.

Class meets weekly for three hours with co-requisite laboratory and one weekend field training exercise. Physical fitness training is also required.

Officership

Year: Senior 2nd Semester
Course: MS 442
Credit Hrs: 3

As a capstone course for the Military Science curriculum, this course focuses on completing the transition from cadet to lieutenant and preparing the student to assume responsibilities as an officer in the United States Army.

The course focuses on three topics, which are crucial to the commissioned officer:

  • military law
  • ethics
  • professionalism

The Senior Leadership Project is an intense practice of experiential learning that continues from MS441; students are responsible for bringing all previous ROTC education to bear by running the cadet battalion.

Class meets weekly for three hours with co-requisite laboratory and one weekend field training exercise. Physical fitness training is also required.