NU NROTC - Obligations

close window

Third Year Schedule
(typical 4 year Navy Scholarship Option)

QTR/MTH

(approx. dates)

FALL QUARTER

(~SEPTEMBER 25 – DECEMBER 10)

DEC

WINTER QUARTER (~JANUARY 3 – MARCH 19)

SPRING QUARTER (~MARCH 29 -- JUNE 10)

STARTINGMID-JUNE

University

Events

FALL CLASSES

Optional Study Abroad

NU EVENTS:

Wildcat Football

Homecoming

Fall Intramurals (Flag Football/Volleyball)

W B

I R

N E

T A

E K

WINTER CLASSES

National Security Policy (req’d for NROTC)

NU EVENTS:

Dance Marathon

Wildcat Basketball

Fraternity/Sorority Rush

Winter Intramurals (Basketball)

SPRING

BREAK

SPRING CLASSES

NU EVENTS:

Armadillo Days

Graduation

Spring Intramurals (Softball/Soccer)

SUMMER

BREAK

NROTC

Events

WISCONSIN DRILL MEET (~ end of October)

NS CLASS: MARINE NAVIGATION

NS CLASS: NAVAL OPERATIONS

SUMMER CRUISE:

FIRST CLASS CRUISE

MILITARY BALL ( ~ end of November)

TULANE DRILL MEET (weekend before Mardi Gras)

DINING-IN ( ~ beg of April)

SPRING REVIEW ( ~ end of April)

LEGEND:

NAVAL SCIENCE CLASS

MANDATORY MILITARY EVENTS

OPTIONAL EVENTS

Typical Third 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	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
0900-1500
1500-1600	Naval Science Class	Naval Science Lab	Naval Science Class	Naval Science Class	Naval Science Class
1600-1630	Intramural Sports (optional)		Study Time/ Free Time	Study Time/ Free Time	Study Time/ Free Time
1630-1700

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

Your junior year in the Northwestern NROTC Unit will commence with the first week of classes, typically starting the last week of September. Some midshipmen participate in Orientation Week as training staff, assigned to help with new midshipmen orientation. Because there are no Naval Science courses in the Fall, some midshipmen take the opportunity to study abroad for a quarter. Junior midshipmen take NS 210 Marine Navigation in the winter quarter followed by NS 331 Naval Operations in the spring quarter. Midshipmen typically take a National Security Policy course in either their sophomore or junior year. All midshipmen, regardless of class year, attend the Naval Science Lab on Tuesday afternoons. 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 third summer as a midshipman, you will participate in First Class Cruise.

Marine Option: Third 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 Navigation or Naval Operations.
	-	Junior Marine Options will either take one of the following Naval Science courses instead: NS 336 Evolution of Warfare or NS 346 History of Amphibious Warfare.
	-	In the summer following their junior year, Marine Options go to OCS at Quantico, Virginia.

Nurse Option: Nurse Option midshipmen attend all classes except Naval Science Lab at Loyola University of Chicago. There are no Naval Science Courses for the junior Nurse Option.

close window