Course Description
Cadets are challenged to study, practice, and evaluate adaptive
leadership skills as they are presented with the demands of the
ROTC Leader Development Assessment Course (LDAC). Challenging
scenarios related to small unit tactical operations are used to
develop self awareness and critical thinking skills. Cadets
receive systematic and specific feedback on their leadership
abilities.
Athena Title
Applied Leadership and Mgmt I
Prerequisite
MILS 1010 and MILS 1020 and MILS 2010 and MILS 2020 and permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will create and sustain an organization climate of trust in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
- Students will have the ability to develop others (i.e., setting conditions, creating opportunity, providing feedback, and enhancing learning) across the institutional, operational, and self-development domains.
- Students will understand the fundamentals of the operations process to enable leaders to understand, visualize, describe, direct, lead, and assess operations. Capabilities of planning, coordinating, navigating, motivating and leading a squad and platoon in the execution of a mission.
- Students will compose and present a military brief of selected information to commanders, staff, and other audiences in a clear, concise, and expedient manner to prepare for future requirements in the military and assist with public speaking skills.
- Students will write and discuss peer evaluations on their abilities as a leader and how to improve those leader skills. Receive feedback on your own evaluations from peers. Develop insights to give and receive systematic and specific feedback on leader attributes, values, and core leader competencies.
Topical Outline
- Effective Communication: Written & Oral
Land Navigation I: Map Reading
Troop Leading Procedures
Battle Drills
Squad Tactics: Attack
Introduction to Leadership Styles
Stress Management
Warrior Ethos
Land Navigation II: Terrain Analysis
Squad Tactics: Movement to Contact
Squad Tactics: Defense
Squad Tactics: Capstone
Leadership Peer Evaluations
Institutional Competencies
Leadership & Collaboration
The capacity to engage in the relational process of optimizing personal and collective strengths toward a common goal.
