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Seminar in Leadership and Management I

Critical Thinking
Leadership & Collaboration

Course Description

Development of cadet proficiency in planning, executing, and assessing complex operations; functioning as a member of a staff; and providing leadership performance feedback to subordinates. Cadets are given situational opportunities to assess risk, make ethical decisions, and provide coaching to fellow ROTC cadets.


Athena Title

Leadership and Management I


Prerequisite

MILS 3010 and MILS 3020 and permission of department


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Student Learning Outcomes

  • Students will demonstrate proficiency in creating and sustaining an organizational climate of trust in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
  • Students will demonstrate proficiency in developing others (i.e. setting conditions, creating opportunity, providing feedback, and enhancing learning) across the institutional, operational, and self-development domains.
  • Students will demonstrate proficiency in the fundamentals of the operations process to enable leaders to understand, visualize, describe, direct, lead, and access operations.
  • Students will demonstrate proficiency in critical and creative thinking to employ an effective and survivable command and control system.
  • Students will demonstrate proficiency in prioritizing, planning and preparing, executing, evaluating and accessing training.
  • Students will develop knowledge, skills, and abilities to plan, resource, and assess training at the small unit level.
  • Students will engage in programs that teach support counseling to subordinates and evaluating performance, values and ethics, career planning, and legal responsibilities.
  • Students will have familiarization and growing proficiency with how to plan, prepare execute, and continuously assess the conduct of training at the company or field grade officer level. Including overseeing lower class-men lesson facilitation during labs.

Topical Outline

  • Army Training Management Risk Management Lesson Military Professional Ethics Law of Land Warfare CO2, POSH, EO, UCMJ Counseling I NCOER Counseling OER Support Form JODSF Career Management Develop a Physical Fitness Program Train the Force Lesson Ethical Decision Making Process Code of Conduct Rules of Engagement (ROE) Personnel Actions Counseling II NCOER, OER Stress Management Leadership / Management Application How to Conduct a Training Meeting Conduct a Training Meeting Training Management

Institutional Competencies

Critical Thinking

The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.


Leadership & Collaboration

The capacity to engage in the relational process of optimizing personal and collective strengths toward a common goal.