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Programs of Study, 1997-1999
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Reserve Officers' Training Corps

NOTE: Students considering enrollment in military science, naval science, or air force aerospace studies courses should be aware that University policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation; students may enroll in these courses regardless of sexual orientation. As of the date of the publication of this catalog, students seeking to enroll in ROTC are not asked to disclose their sexual orientation. However, homosexual conduct is grounds for disenrollment from the program.

ARMY ROTC

Military training has been given at the Urbana-Champaign campus since the University opened in 1868. Originally mandatory for all male undergraduates under the land-grant charter, the program became entirely voluntary in 1964. Participation in the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is open to all University students, regardless of their academic majors or levels.

Program Description

The Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps is an elective program that provides career opportunities, leadership experience, adventure training, and financial support to participating students. The program is a consecutive series of elective courses and other training, including leadership laboratories and field trips designed to prepare young men and women for leadership positions as officers in the U. S. Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard. The leadership principles and management techniques presented, however, are equally applicable to success in any field. Financial support is provided both by state, federal, and named scholarships and by a subsistence allowance of $150 a month.

Leadership Training

Students' leadership is continuously developed through a Leadership Assessment Program (LAP). The LAP evaluates students' leadership potential in a variety of leadership roles and provides immediate feedback to students. Emphasis is on hands-on leadership experience. Cadets plan, organize, and evaluate much of the laboratory and field training.

Adventure Training

Training in mountaineering techniques (rappelling), land navigation, survival, rifle marksmanship, and waterborne operations is given to every student. Some students are selected to attend the Army airborne school, helicopter operations school, and leadership training with active and reserve units.

Financial Assistance Scholarships

Enrollment in Army ROTC can provide significant financial support to interested students, regardless of family financial need. Army ROTC offers three financial aid programs that provide support to Army ROTC cadets: the Army ROTC Federal Scholarship program, the Illinois State ROTC Scholarship program, and the Simultaneous Membership Program of the Army ROTC and the National Guard or Army Reserve. The federal scholarships are competitive scholarships available for college-bound high school juniors and seniors, and college freshmen and sophomores. These scholarships provide funds for tuition, University fees, books, and $150 a month for four, three, or two years, depending on the time of application. Illinois State ROTC Scholarships are competitive scholarships that provide full tuition waivers for ROTC students who are residents of the state. The Simultaneous Membership Program allows students to join the Army Reserve or Army National Guard and also to join Army ROTC. The program provides the student with increased reserve forces pay, benefits of the new GI Bill, and $150 a month from Army ROTC. Engineering students who are enrolled in Army ROTC are eligible for other additional financial aid through named scholarships. These students should contact the ROTC office for further details. All Army ROTC cadets, as a minimum, receive $150 a month for their last two years in the program if they meet the requirements for continuing.

Career Opportunities

The training and instruction are designed to prepare students to serve as officers in the U.S. Army. This may be full time on active duty, or part time with the Army Reserve or National Guard. Service with the reserve forces allows pursuit of a civilian career while simultaneously serving the country as an officer. Approximately half of Army ROTC graduates pursue civilian careers and have discovered that their ROTC leadership training is an invaluable tool for success.

Program Options

1. Four years-the student attends one military science course each semester.

2. Three and one-half years-the student takes two military science courses during the first semester, then one course each semester thereafter.

3. Three years-the student takes two military science courses per semester during the first year, then one course each semester thereafter.

4. Two years-those students with prior military experience (junior ROTC, prior military service) may receive credit for the first two years of Army ROTC and begin with the second two years. Also, students who are interested in the program, but who were not involved in ROTC during their first two years of college, may join during these last two years by attending a six-week camp during the summer, for which each student receives more than $600 in pay.

Academic Program

The first- and second-year educational program in military science consists of the courses MIL S 111, 113, 121, and 123. These 1-hour courses are designed to give students a basic understanding of the national defense establishment, the role of the U.S. Army officer, principles of military leadership, and military-related skills.

The third and fourth years of military science, consisting of MIL S 231, 233, 241, and 243, are designed to develop the skills and attitudes vital to assuming leadership positions.

A leadership laboratory is required with each academic course. The leadership laboratory is one and one half hours per week for the first two years, two hours per week in the third year, and three hours per week during the fourth year. Practical experience is provided in military and leadership skills in a framework that provides maximum opportunity to develop each student's self-confidence, decisiveness, and leadership potential.

To develop the student's academic diversity, each student must demonstrate proficiency or complete a course in math reasoning, computer literacy, human behavioral science, oral/written communications, and military history, prior to being commissioned. These courses may be used to fulfill other academic degree requirements.

First
Year

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

2

MIL S 111-Introduction to Military Leadership

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

2

MIL S 113-Map Reading and Land Navigation

Second
Year

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

2

MIL S 121-Military Mountaineering and Survival

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

2

MIL S 123-Military Marksmanship

Third
Year

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

3

MIL S 231-Military Leadership

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

3

MIL S 233-Military Operations and Tactics

Fourth
Year

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

3

MIL S 241-Military Law and Professional Ethics

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

3

MIL S 243-Military Management Systems

Enrollment in the third- and fourth-year courses and laboratories requires instructor approval. Non-U.S. citizens may require the consent of their governments to be ROTC students.

Enrollment in laboratories requires instructor approval, and students must meet service entrance requirements.

Additional Information

For additional information regarding any of these programs, contact the professor of military science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 113 Armory Building, 505 East Armory Street, Champaign, IL 61820, (217) 333-1550.

NAVAL ROTC

The Naval ROTC program is a professional educational opportunity in which a student can earn a commission in the U.S. Navy or Marine Corps while pursuing a baccalaureate degree. This professional foundation is then developed and broadened during active service as a commissioned officer after graduation and commissioning. A student may be enrolled in either the Scholarship Program or the College Program (nonscholarship). There are four-year programs for entering freshmen and two-year programs for students who have already completed part of their college education.

For scholarship students, no military obligation is incurred until the beginning of the sophomore year. College program students incur the military obligation at the commencement of the junior year. Naval science courses are open to all students, upon consent of the Department of Naval Science, even if they are not enrolled in either of these programs.

Four-Year Navy-Marine Scholarship Program

The Navy-Marine Scholarship Program provides the student with full tuition, fees, books, and a tax-free subsistence pay (currently $150 per month) for as long as four years. A student in good standing and enrolled in a degree program that requires longer than four years to complete may apply for fifth-year scholarship benefits with agreement to serve additional active service after commissioning, or the student may take a leave of absence of as long as a year to finish the baccalaureate degree. Upon graduation, scholarship students are commissioned in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps and serve four years on active duty. Newly commissioned officers who qualify have the opportunity to continue their education toward advanced degrees.

Scholarship selection in national competition is based on the applicant's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or American College Testing (ACT) Program score, high school and college records, aptitude for naval service as judged by interviews, and by prescribed physical qualifications.

Scholarship students have an opportunity during the summer to practice what they have learned in the classroom. Three summer training periods of approximately four to six weeks each are taken by students either at sea aboard a U.S. Navy vessel; at a squadron or amphibious base, or at a naval air station; or on board a nuclear submarine. Students who choose to enter the U.S. Marine Corps spend their last summer training period at the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virginia.

Four-Year Navy-Marine College Program

A Navy-Marine College Program student receives all required uniforms and naval science textbooks while enrolled, and a subsistence allowance (currently $150 per month) during the junior and senior years. If the degree program requires longer than four years to complete, the student may apply for a fifth-year benefit of subsistence pay with agreement of additional active service after commissioning or may take a leave of absence as long as a year to finish the baccalaureate degree. Upon graduation, the college program student is commissioned in the U.S. Naval or U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and serves three of the eight years of reserve obligation on active duty.

A student may apply for admission to the college program through the professor of naval science, who makes the final selection. This selection is based on academic, physical, and military aptitude criteria. College program students also attend one summer at-sea training session, usually after the junior year.

College program students are eligible to be selected for the scholarship program through recommendation of the professor of naval science; the decision is made by the chief of naval education and training (CNET). These students are also eligible to receive Illinois State ROTC scholarships (if residents of this state). These scholarships are awarded annually on a competitive basis and cover tuition only.

Two-Year College Program

This program provides a student with all required uniforms, naval science textbooks, and subsistence pay (currently $150 per month). Applicants should have two remaining years of study at the Urbana-Champaign campus. During the summer before the junior year, students attend a six-week course of military instruction at the Naval Science Institute at Newport, Rhode Island. Transportation costs and salaries are paid to the students. After successful completion of the course, they join their contemporaries in the college program and also may be eligible for appointment to scholarship status, depending on their backgrounds and academic performances. College program students participate in a four-to-six-week summer at-sea training period between their junior and senior years, as do their scholarship counterparts. Applications must be complete and reach CNET by 15 March of the sophomore year. Interviewing begins in January of the sophomore year.

Two-Year Scholarship Program

Acceptance into the Naval ROTC Two-Year Scholarship Program training option guarantees a student a two-year Naval ROTC scholarship. Summer training and other benefits, as well as Naval ROTC training during the junior and senior years, are the same as those for the two-year college program. Prerequisites for this option include at least one year of calculus, with a C average or better. A minimum grade-point average of 2.5/4.0 is required, with a preferred major of mathematics, chemistry, physics, or engineering. Applications must be complete and reach CNET by 15 March of the sophomore year. Interviewing begins in January of the sophomore year.

Nurse Option

The Nurse option Scholarship Program provides the student the same benefits as four-year scholarship students. Upon graduation, students are commissioned in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. Nurse option students have two specialized four-week summer training periods at a major naval hospital and at sea. Only the freshman and senior naval science and English composition class requirements are mandatory. Graduates must pass their licensing exam within one year.

State Navy ROTC Scholarship

For information regarding the state Navy ROTC scholarships, see page 30.

Requirements

In addition to mental, physical, and aptitude requirements, men and women in the Naval ROTC program must:

- Be citizens of the United States.

- Be between 17 and 21 years of age by September 1 of the year in which enrollment begins (those contemplating a bachelor's degree that requires five years to complete must be younger than age 20 on June 30 of that year). If younger than age 18, they must have the consent of their parents. Scholarship students must be younger than age 25 on June 30 of the calendar year in which they are commissioned. College program students must meet identical requirements except that they must be younger than age 27 on June 30 of the calendar year in which commissioned.

- Have no moral obligations or personal convictions that will prevent them from executing the oath of office.

Each week, Naval ROTC students have a two-hour naval science laboratory course, N S 100, for which there is no credit, and also take the following naval science and University academic courses.

First
Year

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

2

N S 101-Introduction to Naval Science

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

2

N S 102-Sea Power and Maritime Affairs

Second
Year

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

3

N S 121-Naval Weapons Systems

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

3

N S 122-Introduction to Naval Engineering

Third
Year
(Navy)

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

3

N S 231-Naval Operations and Navigation, I

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

3

N S 232-Naval Operations and Navigation, II

Third
Year
(Marine)

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

3

HIST 281-War, Military Institutions, and Society to 1815

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

3

HIST 282-War, Military Institutions, and Society Since 1815

3

N S 291-Evolution of Warfare

Forth
Year
(Navy)

HOURS

FIRST SEMESTER

3

B ADM 210-Management and Organizational Behavior

HOURS

SECOND SEMESTER

2

N S 242-Naval Leadership and Management, II

Fourth
Year
(Marine)

HOURS

REQUIRED COURSES

3

N S 293-History of Amphibious Warfare

Each scholarship student's degree program must also include the following University courses (not required for Marine Corps option students):

SEMESTERS

COURSES

2

Calculus

2

Physics (calculus-based)

2

English

1

U.S. Military Affairs/National Security Policy

1

Computer Science

Marine option students are to complete one semester of political science as directed by the marine officer instructor.

College program (nonscholarship) students, who are not governed by federal scholarship requirements, must complete two semesters of college mathematics and the physical sciences as a prerequisite to commissioning.

Additional Information

Further information regarding Naval ROTC may be obtained in person from or by writing to the professor of naval science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 236 Armory, 505 East Armory Street, Champaign, IL 61820, (217) 333-1061

AIR FORCE ROTC

The Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an elective program that provides professional military training for participating students. The program is a consecutive series of elective courses, leadership laboratories, and field training experiences designed to prepare young men and women for leadership positions as commissioned officers in the U.S. Air Force. The curriculum, however, is applicable to success in any field.

For qualified applicants, Air Force ROTC offers two-, three-, and four-year programs leading to a commission as an Air Force officer. Three- and four-year program students complete the general military course, field training, and the professional officer course. Two-year program students complete an extended field training encampment and the professional officer course. Financial support is provided both by state and federal scholarships and by a subsistence allowance of $150 a month.

Aerospace studies courses are open to all registered students, upon consent of the Department of Aerospace Studies, even if they are not enrolled in any of these programs and do not wish to pursue a commission.

General Military Course

The educational program for the first two years in Air Force Aerospace Studies consists of AFAS 111, 112, 121, and 122. These 1-hour courses are designed to give students basic information on air power history and the role of the U.S. Air Force in the defense of the free world. All required aerospace studies textbooks and necessary uniforms are provided free. The general military course is open to all registered students at the University of Illinois without advance application and does not obligate students to the Air Force in any way.

Field Training

Air Force ROTC field training is offered during the summer months at selected Air Force bases throughout the United States. Students in the four-year program participate in four weeks of field training, usually between their sophomore and junior years. Students applying for entry into the two-year program must successfully complete six weeks of field training prior to enrollment in the professional officer course. The Air Force pays all expenses associated with field training.

The major areas of study in the four-week field training program include junior officer training, aircraft and air crew orientation, career orientation, survival training, base functions, Air Force environment, and physical training. The major areas of study included in the six-week field training program are essentially the same as those conducted at four-week field training plus the general military course and leadership laboratories.

Professional Officer Course

The third and fourth years of Air Force aerospace studies instruction, consisting of AFAS 231, 232, 241, and 242, are designed to develop skills and attitudes vital to the professional officer. Students completing the professional officer course are commissioned as officers in the U. S. Air Force upon college graduation. All students in the course receive a nontaxable subsistence allowance of $150 per month during the two-semester academic year. Students wanting to enter the program should apply early in the spring semester of their sophomore year in order to begin this course the following fall semester. Final selection of students rests with the professor of aerospace studies. Each member of the course must:

- Be a citizen of the United States.

- Be a full-time student at the University.

- Have at least two years remaining at the University as an undergraduate and/or graduate student upon entry to the program.

- Pass an Air Force physical examination.

- Be able to complete all requirements for commissioning before reaching age 261/2 for a flying candidate or age 30 for a nonflying candidate.

- Complete summer field training (four-week or six-week).

- Achieve a qualifying score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test.

- Complete Rhetoric 105 or its equivalent and a college-level mathematics course before graduation.

- Execute a written agreement with the U.S. government to complete the course, accept a reserve commission in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation, and serve four years on active duty after graduation. Pilot candidates agree to serve eight years, and navigators six years, on active duty after completion of flying training.

- Enlist in the Air Force Obligated Reserve Section; this enlistment is terminated upon acceptance of a commission.

- Possess and maintain a quality grade-point average meeting the requirements of the student's college.

- Not be a conscientious objector, nor possess other disqualifying characteristics to a commission as established by law or the Department of Defense. Talk with the AFROTC recruiter to see if you qualify.

Leadership Laboratory

The Air Force requires all qualified officer candidates pursuing a commission to participate in a leadership laboratory. The leadership laboratory is not a University course and no University credit is awarded for participation.

Instruction is conducted within the framework of an organized cadet corps with a progression of experiences designed to develop each student's leadership potential. The leadership laboratory involves the study of Air Force customs and courtesies, drill and ceremonies, career opportunities, and the life and work of an Air Force junior officer. Students develop leadership in a practical, supervised laboratory, which typically includes field trips to Air Force installations throughout the United States. This laboratory is restricted to individuals enrolled in the precommissioning programs only.

Air Force ROTC College Scholarship Program

This program provides scholarships to selected students through participation in the Air Force ROTC. During their participation in the program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, students receive $150 per month along with paid tuition, fees, laboratory expenses, and required textbooks.

In order to be eligible for this scholarship, a student must:

- Be a citizen of the United States.

- Be at least 17 years old on the date of enrollment and younger than age 25 on June 30 of the estimated year of commissioning.

- Pass a physical examination administered by a physician of the U.S. Air Force.

- Be selected by a board of Air Force officers.

- Have no moral objections or personal convictions that will prevent bearing arms and supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. An applicant must not be a conscientious objector.

- Achieve a qualifying score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test.

- Successfully complete four-week or six-week AFROTC Summer Field Training.

- Maintain a quality grade-point average.

- Enlist in the Air Force Reserve. This enlistment is terminated by acceptance of a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.

- Execute a written contract with the U.S. Government agreeing to complete the Air Force ROTC program, to attend summer field training at the specified time, to accept a reserve commission in the Air Force upon graduation, and to serve four years on active duty after graduation.

High school students should apply for this scholarship late in their junior year or early in their senior year. High school students may get applications from their guidance counselors or from Air Force ROTC, Detachment 190, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 223 Armory Building, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820, (217) 333-1927. Completed applications must be received no later than December 1 of the year before the student intends to enter college.

For students already enrolled in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 31/2-, 3-, 21/2-, and 2-year scholarships are available. Applications can be submitted through the Air Force ROTC administration office, 223 Armory Building.

State Air Force ROTC Scholarships

For Illinois Air Force ROTC Scholarships see:
SPECIALIZED AID PROGRAMS

Additional Information

Further inquiry concerning the Air Force ROTC program at the University should be directed to Air Force ROTC, Detachment 190, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 223 Armory Building, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820, (217) 333-1927.

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