Military Affairs (MIL AFF)

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course teaches the fundamentals of physical fitness employed by the U.S. military to condition ROTC cadets for the physical demands they will face as military officers. The course consists of rigorous physical training under the supervision of military officers and noncommissioned officers. The goal of this course is to not only enhance one's level of physical fitness, but also to develop leadership qualities in the conduct and planning of physical fitness training. Physical training will include, but is not limited to: running up to five miles, team sports, aerobics, and other activities.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Conceptually examines the Armed Forces as an integral element of American society. Examines contemporary issues in civil-military relations and the national and international environment in which U.S. defense policy is formulated and implemented.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course focuses on commissioning of cadets and their transition to active duty. The primary focus of instruction is officership, professionalism, and leadership. Topics for specific discussion include the military justice system, military ethics, core values, military professionalism and current issues affecting the Air Force, and a general introduction to base functions designed to ease cadets' transition to active duty. This course combines lecture and discussion with increased emphasis on the students' written and oral communication skills.
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Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
What is leadership? Does leadership remain fundamentally the same when you change scale or purpose, or does it in some way become fundamentally different? What is good leadership? Are the virtues of leadership universal and unchanging, or are they relative to your historical circumstances? Who can be a leader? Can leadership be taught, or is it something you are born with? How do we gain knowledge about leadership? Can we learn leadership through logic, reasoning from fundamental ideas, or do we require experimentation and empirical evidence? These are some of the questions we will be investigating through the close reading of classic texts on the philosophy of leadership, such as Plato’s Statesman and Machiavelli’s The Prince.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Supervised independent study and research for undergraduate students who desire to pursue topics of their own selection.
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