MILITARY SCIENCE 289
MLTS 203 & MLTS 204: Leadership Labs Courses supplement instruction in MLTS 201 and MLTS 202. Students will apply the leadership and management skills learned during classroom instruction in order to develop individual competence and confidence in their own leadership abilities. Corequisite for MLTS 203: MLTS 201 Corequisite for MLTS 204: MLTS 202 1 credit, Fall, Spring MLTS 205: Leader’s Training Course This is a four-week summer leadership course at Fort Knox, Kentucky sponsored by the U.S. Army Cadet Command. The course is for students who have not previously taken the required ROTC courses during their freshman and sophomore years and who wish to contract with the ROTC program at the start of their junior year. The course focuses on basic soldier skills to include an obstacle course, water survival, M-16 rifle marksmanship, squad tactics, and leadership evaluations. Students attending this course must be academically aligned as a junior at the start of the fall semester after LTC. Students are required to visit the ROTC Department prior to signing up for the course. 3-6 credits, Summer Advanced Course Entrance into the advanced course is required by the completion of the following: 1) Army ROTC Basic Course, 2) Basic Training, 3) MLTS 205. MLTS 301: Adaptive Team Leadership This course challenges Cadets to study, practice, and evaluate adaptive leadership skills as they are presented with challenging scenarios related to squad tactical operations. Cadets receive systematic and specific feedback on their leadership attributes and actions. Based on such feedback, as well as their own self-evaluations, Cadets continue to develop their leadership and critical thinking abilities. The focus is developing Cadet’s tactical leadership abilities to enable them to succeed at ROTC’s summer Leadership Development and Assessment Course (LDAC) at Fort Lewis, Washington. Prerequisites: MLTS 201, 202 or 205, Corequisite: MLTS 303 2 credits, Fall MLTS 302: Applied Team Leadership This course uses increasingly intense situations while applying team leadership challenges to build Cadet awareness and skills in leading tactical operations at the small unit level. Cadets review aspects of full spectrum operations. They also conduct military briefings and develop proficiency in the operation orders process. The focus is on exploring, evaluating, and developing skills in decision-making, persuading, and motivating team members in the contemporary operation environment (COE). MSL 302 Cadets are evaluated on what they know and do as leaders as they prepare for ROTC’s summer Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC) at Fort Lewis, Washington. Prerequisite: MLTS 301 Corequisite: MLTS 304 2 credits, Spring MLTS 303 & MLTS 304: Leadership Labs The student implements the plans and orders created as part of Advanced Leadership Management I & II. The student will be evaluated on how he or she handles the changing situations, personalities and environments encountered during the labs. Corequisite for MLTS 303: MLTS 301 Corequisite for MLTS 304: MLTS 302 1 credit, Fall, Spring MLTS 401: Adaptive Leadership This course transitions the focus of student learning from being trained, mentored and evaluated as an MSL III Cadet to learning how to train, mentor and evaluate underclass Cadets. MSL IV Cadets will learn the duties and responsibilities of an Army staff officer and apply the Military Decision Making Process, Army writing style and the Army’s principles of training and training management cycle during weekly training meetings to plan, execute and assess battalion training events. 2 credits, Fall