Course Description
The use of increasingly intense situational leadership challenges
to build cadet awareness and skills in leading small units.
Skills in decision-making, persuading, and motivating team
members when “under fire” are explored, evaluated, and developed.
Aspects of military operations are reviewed as a means of
preparing for the ROTC Leader Development Assessment Course (LDAC).
Athena Title
Applied Leadership and Mgmt II
Prerequisite
MILS 1010 and MILS 1020 and MILS 2010 and MILS 2020 and permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
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, operations, 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 their own evaluations from peers. Develop insights to give and receive systematic and specific feedback on leader attributes, values, and core leader competencies.
Topical Outline
- Military Brief
Intro Rules of Engagement / Law of Land Warfare
Squad Tactics
Situational Leadership
Platoon Tactics
Land Navigation I
Garrison Orders I
Warrior Ethos
Accessions
LDAC
PCCs
PCIs
Terrorism Awareness / COE
Situational Leadership: Tactical Vignettes
Platoon Tactics
Land Navigation II
Garrison Orders II
Principles of War
Team Dynamics
Intro MDMP - Persuasion / Motivation
Land Navigation III
Garrison Orders III
Crew-served Weapons
Range Cards
Call For Fire
Institutional Competencies
Leadership & Collaboration
The capacity to engage in the relational process of optimizing personal and collective strengths toward a common goal.
