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  Why Study Military Science?   Career Options         (Link to: )
  The Department of Military Science is home to “America’s best leadership development program!” – Army Reserved Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Our curriculum and faculty are completely focused on you, and your development as a world-class leader. Our curriculum is fun, challenging, exciting and relevant. Through completing our curriculum, you also qualify yourself to become an Army Officer, and lead in America’s most respected profession.
• Our academic programs are open to all students, without any obligation for military service.
• Our program is where students acquire leadership and management skills that make them the most sought after commodity in the civilian job market, giving them a decided advantage over their peers for the rest of their lives.
• Our department has integrated its efforts with the CMU Leadership Institute, contributing to the CMU Board of Trustees goal to make CMU the premier “center for leadership development in the Mid-America Conference, and among the best in the nation”.
• Students learn to model the values of Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage. Students develop their Mental, Physical and Emotional capabilities. They also develop their Conceptual and Interpersonal skills. Finally, they learn how to Communicate effectively; make good Decisions; Motivate others; Plan, Execute and Assess operations; Develop, Build teams and Improve themselves and the organizations they lead.
• There is simply not a more comprehensive leadership development program in the nation.

Military Science at CMU
The Military Science / ROTC Program is one of the best and fastest growing program’s in the nation, committed to holding a national ranking in the top 5%. Since the focus of our program is leadership development, our curriculum supports all degree programs at CMU. All organizations, in all career fields, are looking for proven leaders.
• Our curriculum is fun, challenging, exciting and relevant. Classroom instruction moves quickly from lecture to group discussions, practical exercises, and hands-on experiences that support learning.
• All classes include student-led Leadership Labs which are hands-on and include such exciting training as: rappelling, rock-climbing, High-Ropes Course, marksmanship, water survival, orienteering, map reading, first aid, weapons, drill, squad tactics, patrolling, and team-building exercises.
• Upper level courses include a Leadership Practicum where students apply the leadership lessons they learned in the classroom to real life, by filling leadership positions within the Corps of Cadets.
• Our program offers Leadership Internships both in-state and around the world; Basic and Advanced Leadership Camps; Leadership Development Training at the United States Military Academy, and in the United Kingdom; Leadership Training at the Army’s most challenging schools, such as Airborne, Air Assault, Scuba, Northern Warfare, and Mountain Warfare.
• The majority of our program’s activities are planned, organized, prepared, executed, and assessed by student leaders of the Corps of Cadets. The leadership potential of students are developed through formal leadership assessments and feedback, mentorship, and whole-student counseling.

 

Your experience in our program provides with you the skills that Fortune 500 companies aggressively seek – proven leadership. Besides your unmatched development as a leader, if you also chose to become an Officer, you will expand your breadth and depth of acquired skills, opening up a myriad of opportunities for future employment.
• Junior Military Officers are scouted by employment head-hunters. Officers have priority for hiring for government jobs, and many organizations and universities give preference to military officers.
• Nation-wide, graduates of ROTC fill the highest positions of all branches of government (administrative, judicial and legislative), businesses, non-profit organizations, universities, and professional sports.
• Our CMU program has produced numerous Presidents/CEOs, Vice-Presidents of Dow Chemical and Merrill Lynch, Justices, Professors, General Officers, and leaders in National Security organizations.
• The Army has 16 exciting and high tech career fields to choose from, that directly relate to the civilian sector, some of which are aviation, medical service, engineering, intelligence, security, law enforcement, information technology, human resources, finance, and distribution management.
• Our program supports lateral entry into America’s most elite organizations, like the State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Secret Service.
• Students that chose to serve as officers in the Active Army can rejoin the civilian sector after four years of service. Students that chose to serve in the National Guard or Reserves have the ability to work anywhere they want, in whatever civilian profession they chose, or to pursue a graduate degree.

 
See also:  www.careers.cmich.edu
 

Academic Programs


The Department of Military Science is academically excellent. Our instructors are committed to excellence in Teaching and Learning, and our department has been recognized as one of the top four programs at CMU in the area of Assessment. Students receive credits for each of our courses, and our advanced courses have the added advantage of applying towards our Minor in Military Science. Our department offers two programs:
• The Officer Leadership Development Program is designed to be taken in parallel with the curriculum of your academic major. Students that desire to become Army Officers receive their Commission upon completing both their degree requirements and the military science curriculum. The military science curriculum consists of one class and Leadership Lab each semester for eight semesters in progressive order. Latecomers and graduate students may make-up the first four semesters of the curriculum by attending the month-long Leadership Training Camp during the summer, or a variety of other ways. All students seeking commissions as officers attend the month-long National Advanced Leadership Camp, normally completed during the summer prior to a student’s last year of school.
• The Minor in Military Science is designed to provide an interdisciplinary education in military science and leadership. The foundations for this minor are the advanced military science courses and a course in military history. This foundation is supplemented by elective studies in cultures, politics, geography, constitutional history & law, public relations, international relations, foreign policy, and religion.

Admission/Retention/Termination Standards
• In order to sign for a Minor in Military Science, students must meet with a departmental advisor.
• Students must earn an overall cumulative GPA of 2.0 in Military Science Minor courses in order to receive credit for the minor.
• Students who are pursuing a commission as an Army Officer must earn an undergraduate degree, meeting all of the requirements for their signed academic major and minor if a minor is required. They must also meet all the requirements of their Army ROTC contract.

 

CMU Leadership Institute
The CMU ROTC program has a close partnership with the CMU Leadership Institute.  Many students choose to enroll in both programs. 

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