*For more information regarding course equivalencies please refer to the Course Equivalency section, under “How to Read a Course Description“, in the CoE Bulletin Website: https://bulletin.engin.umich.edu/courses/course-info/
AERO (Air Force Officer Education Program)
AERO 101. Heritage and Values of the United States Air Force I
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (1 credit)
he first course in a two-course sequence designed to introduce students to the United States Air Force and provides an overview of the basic characteristics, missions, and organization of the Air Force. It focuses on leadership, core values, and teamwork within the Air Force.
AERO 102. Heritage and Values of the United States Air Force II
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (1 credit)
The second course in a two-course sequence designed to introduce students to the United States Air Force provides an overview of the basic characteristics, missions, and organization of the Air Force. It focuses on the history and organizational structure of the United States Air Force and airpower’s role in war.
AERO 201 (UC 201). Team and Leadership Fundamentals I
Advisory Prerequisite: AERO 102/Permission of instructor. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (1 credit)
Topics allow students to improve their leadership personally and within teams, instill a leadership mindset and transition from cadet to officer candidate. The course prepares students for field-training, where they will put concepts into practice
AERO 202 (UC 202). Team and Leadership Fundamentals II
Advisory Prerequisite: AERO 201/Permission of instructor. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (1 credit)
Topics allow students to improve their leadership personally and within teams, instill a leadership mindset and transition from cadet to officer candidate. The course prepares students for field-training, where they will put concepts into practice.
AERO 310 (UC 307). Leading People and Effective Communication I
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
The course provides juniors and seniors with the opportunity to apply leadership and management techniques in a supervised environment. The course enhances leadership and communication skills.
AERO 311. Leading People and Effective Communication II
Advisory Prerequisite: AERO 310. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
The second course in a two-course sequence focused on advanced management and leadership skills. The course provides juniors and seniors with the opportunity to apply leadership and management techniques in a supervised environment. The course enhances leadership and communication skills.
AERO 410. National Security Affairs/Preparation for Active Duty I
Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: AERO 310 and AERO 311. Minimum grade requirement of “C” for enforced prerequisite. (3 credits)
The first course in a two-course sequence focused on an overview of the complex and political issues facing the military profession. The course provides seniors with the foundation to understand their role as military officers in American society. The course prepares seniors for Active Duty.
AERO 411. National Security Affairs/Preparation for Active Duty II
Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: AERO 310 and AERO 311. Minimum grade requirement of “C” for enforced prerequisite. (3 credits)
The second course in a two-course sequence focused on an overview of the complex and political issues facing the military profession. The courses provide seniors with the foundation to understand their role as military officers in American society. The course prepares seniors for Active Duty.
MILSCI (Army Officer Education Program)
MILSCI 101. Introduction to Officership
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (No credit granted to CoE Students)
Develops an understanding of the U.S. Army. Introduces the critical military leadership skills used by the Officer Corps of the Army. Topics include: customs and traditions of the service, organization of the Army, and the officer corps’ role in the service of the country. Students have the opportunity to participate in various military skills training such as rappelling, land navigation, orienteering, briefing techniques, and physical fitness classes. There is no obligation to the military associated with this class.
MILSCI 102. Introduction to Leadership
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (No credit granted to CoE Students)
Learn/apply principles of effective leading. Reinforce self-confidence through participation in physically and mentally challenging exercises with upper division ROTC students. Develop communication skills to improve individual performance and group interaction. Relate organizational ethical values to the effectiveness of a leader. Participation in a weekend exercise is optional, but highly encouraged.
MILSCI 201 (UC 203). Innovative Tactical Leadership
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (No credit granted to CoE Students)
The focus of this course is to develop the students’ basic understanding of military leadership. The course focuses on current military leadership theory and its organizational application. It includes discussions of leadership styles, principles of leadership, human behavior, principles of motivation, ethics, counseling, communications and the military problem solving process. It also incorporates leadership assessment training and discussions of how leadership influences the achievement of organizational goals.
MILSCI 202 (UC 204). Leadership in Changing Environments
Advisory Prerequisite: Permission of professor. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (1 credit)
Examines the challenges of leading in complex contemporary operational environments. Dimensions of the cross-cultural challenges of leadership in a constantly changing world are highlighted and applied to practical Army leadership tasks and situations.
MILSCI 301 (UC 301). Leading Small Organizations I
Advisory Prerequisite: Permission of Army OEP Chair. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (2 credits)
Series of practical opportunities to lead small groups, receive personal assessments and encouragement, and lead again in situations of increasing complexity. Uses small unit tactics and opportunities to plan and conduct training for lower division students both to develop such skills and as vehicles for practicing leading. Two hours and a required leadership lab, plus required participation in three one-hour sessions for physical fitness. Participation in one weekend exercise is also required.
MILSCI 302 (UC 302). Leading Small Organizations II
Advisory Prerequisite: Permission of program chairman. Enforced Prerequisite: MILSCI 301/UC 301. (2 credits)
Continues methodology of MILSCI 301/UC 301. Analyze tasks; prepare written or oral guidance for team members to accomplish tasks. Delegate tasks and supervise. Plan for and adapt to the unexpected in organizations under stress. Examine and apply lessons from leadership case studies. Examine importance of ethical decision making in setting a positive climate that enhances team performance. Two hours and a required leadership lab, plus required participation in three one-hour sessions for physical fitness. Participation in one weekend exercise is required.
MILSCI 401 (UC 401). Leadership and Management
Advisory Prerequisite: Permission of chair of Army OEP. Enforced Prerequisite: MILSCI 302/UC 302. (2 credits)
Plan, conduct, and evaluate activities of the ROTC cadet organization. Articulate goals and put plans into action to attain them. Assess organizational cohesion and develop strategies to improve it. Develop confidence in skills to lead people and manage resources. Learn/apply various Army policies and programs in this effort.
MILSCI 402 (UC 402). Military Professionalism and Professional Ethics
Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: MILSCI 401/UC 401. (2 credits)
MILSCI 402 is an interdisciplinary course that integrates history, political science, ethics and morality, law, leadership and management. The course helps prepare students to ethically lead and manage complex organizations by focusing on the moral, ethical, legal and regulatory aspects of being a commissioned officer in the US Army.
MILSCI 499. Independent Study-Directed Readings
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (1-4 credits)
Directed reading or research in consultation with a member of the Army Officer Education faculty.
NAVSCI (Navy Officer Education Program)
NAVSCI 101. Introduction to Naval Science
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (2 credits)
An introductory look at the organizational structure of the naval service. Attention is concentrated on leadership and management principles as they apply to the naval service and the shipboard organization. Additional subjects to be covered are military justice, and Navy policies and procedures.
NAVSCI 102 (UC 101). Seapower and Maritime Affairs
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (2 credits)
This course focuses on the historical role of sea power, emphasizing the U.S. Navy. Topics include: development of naval power and applications as an instrument of foreign policy; historical relationship of navies with their respective domestic, political, and economic environment; and the rise of U.S. as a maritime power.
NAVSCI 201 (NAVARCH 102). Introduction to Ship Systems
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
Types, structures and purposes of ships. Ship compartmentation, propulsion systems, auxiliary power systems, interior communications, and ship control. Elements of ship design to achieve safe operations, and ship stability characteristics
NAVSCI 202 (EECS 250). Electronic Sensing Systems
Advisory Prerequisite: Prior or concurrent enrollment in PHYSICS 240 (or PHYSICS 260) or EECS 230. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
Introduction to properties and behavior of electromagnetic energy as it pertains to naval applications of communication, radar, and electro-optics. Additional topics include sound navigation and ranging (SONAR), tracking and guidance systems, and computer-controlled systems.
NAVSCI 203 (UC 205). Leadership and Management
Advisory Prerequisite: NAVSCI 101, NAVSCI 102, or Permission of Instructor. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
This course is specifically designed to teach introductory-level leadership and management concepts and applications to sophomore-level university students. The course starts with a basic overview of leadership and management, and then moves into basic skills including professional reading, writing, briefings, problem solving, team building, situational leadership, morality, ethics, and communications. After the basic skills are covered, the curriculum explores leader-subordinate and peer relationships, while taking an in-depth look at professional and unprofessional relationships. The course emphasized ethics in leadership and management and explores subjects in power and influence, counseling, supervision, accountability, responsibility, and core values.
NAVSCI 301 (ASTRO 261). Navigation
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
The purpose of this course is to educate students in all aspects of marine navigation, from getting a vessel underway from port through open ocean navigation using both celestial and electronic means. The content of the course is divided into three major areas. The first section focuses on piloting, emphasizing the safe navigation of vessels in coastal waters. This section provides an introduction to navigational instruments and aids to navigation. The second section concerns celestial navigation, the ability to determine position through observation of celestial bodies. Students learn how to determine position based on the use of the sextant and various almanacs and mathematical tables. The third section of the course considers electronic navigation.
NAVSCI 302. Seamanship and Naval Operations
Advisory Prerequisite: NAVSCI 301. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
A study of the international and inland rules of the nautical road, relative motion vector analysis, relative motion problems at sea, formation tactics, and ship employment. Also included is an introduction to naval operations and operations analysis, ship behavior and characteristics in maneuvering, applied aspects of shiphandling, seamanship, and afloat communications.
NAVSCI 310 (UC 310). Fundamentals of Warfare
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
Analysis and application of fundamental maneuver warfare concepts that are critical to the success of the contemporary war-fighter. Students will study fire and maneuver and associated concepts at the individual and small unit level.
NAVSCI 402 (UC 403). Leadership and Ethics
Advisory Prerequisite: NAVSCI 203. Non-ROTC students need permission of instructor. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (2 credits)
Exploration of Western moral traditions and ethical philosophy in topics to include military leadership, core values, and professional ethics.
NAVSCI 410 (UC 410). Amphibious Warfare
Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits)
Exploration of the history, development, and techniques of amphibious operations to enable the student to acquire a general background in amphibious operations.