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First Year Schedule
(typical 4 year Navy Scholarship Option)

QTR/MTH approx. dates	SEPTEMBER BEFORE FRESHMAN YEAR			FALL QUARTER (~SEPTEMBER 25 – DECEMBER 10)	DEC	WINTER QUARTER (~JANUARY 3 – MARCH 19)	M A R	SPRING QUARTER (~MARCH 29 -- JUNE 10)	STARTINGMID-JUNE
UNIVERSITY EVENTS			F O R R E I S E H N M T A A N T I O N	FALL CLASSES Calculus 1 (req’d for NROTC) NU EVENTS: Wildcat Football Homecoming Fall Intramurals (Flag Football/Volleyball)	W B I R N E T A E K R	WINTER CLASSES Calculus 2 (req’d for NROTC) NU EVENTS: Dance Marathon Wildcat Basketball Fraternity/Sorority Rush Winter Intramurals (Basketball)	SPRING BREAK	SPRING CLASSES Calculus 3 (req’d for NROTC) NU EVENTS: Armadillo Days Graduation Spring Intramurals (Softball/Soccer)	SUMMER BREAK
NROTC EVENTS		O-WEEK	O-WEEK	NS CLASS: INTRODUCTION TO NAVAL ORGANIZATION		NS CLASS: SEAPOWER and MARITIME AFFAIRS		DINING-IN ( ~ beg. of April)	SUMMER CRUISE: CORTRA-MID
				WISCONSIN DRILL MEET (~ end of October)		TULANE DRILL MEET (weekend before Mardi Gras)		SPRING REVIEW ( ~ end of April)
				MILITARY BALL ( ~ end of November)

LEGEND:

NAVAL SCIENCE CLASS

MANDATORY MILITARY EVENTS

OPTIONAL EVENTS

Typical First Year Weekly Schedule

	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SAT/SUN
0600-0730	Fitness Enhancement Physical Training **	Drill Team Practice	Physical Training	Drill Team Practice	Fitness Enhancement Physical Training **	Free Time/ Extracurriculars/ Study
0730-0900	Naval Science Class	Free Time	Naval Science Class	Free Time	Naval Science Class
0900-1500	Academic Class/ Study Time/ Free Time	Academic Class/ Study Time/ Free Time	Academic Class/ Study Time/ Free Time	Academic Class/ Study Time/ Free Time	Academic Class/ Study Time/ Free Time
1500-1700		Naval Science Lab		Intramural Sports

** Fitness Enhancement Physical Training is required for midshipmen failing to meet the standards of a semi-annual physical fitness test.

Your freshman year in the Northwestern NROTC Unit will commence with Orientation Week, typically scheduled the week before the University’s Freshman Orientation. Once classes start, you will take NS 110 Introduction to Naval Organization as part of your fall quarter course load, followed by NS 120 Seapower and Maritime Affairs in the winter quarter. All midshipmen, regardless of class year, attend the Naval Science Lab on Tuesday afternoons. There are typically no Naval Science Courses offered in the spring quarter. The academic year is full of opportunities to participate in NROTC events such as Drill Meets, the Military Ball, Dining-in, and Spring Review. In your first summer as a midshipman, you will participate in CORTRAMID (approximately one month in length).

Marine Option: First year Marine Option Scholarship midshipmen have a very similar schedule to that pictured, with exceptions:

	-	Physical Training is mandatory three times per week (usually Monday and Wednesday afternoons, and Friday morning at 0600).
	-	All Marine Options are members of the drill team, so drill team practice is mandatory.
	-	Marine Options are not required to take Calculus.

Nurse Option: Nurse Option midshipmen attend all classes except Naval Science at Loyola University of Chicago. Loyola's academic year is scheduled differently than that of Northwestern, so freshman classes are in progress during Orientation Week. Nurse Option freshmen receive permission from their professors at Loyola to miss class during this critical week of training. Nurse Options are not required to take Calculus.

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