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Show Social Sciences Aerospace SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Lawrence C. Evans, Dean The School of Social Sciences provides several avenues to academic professional, and vocational competence. Besides specific courses preparing students for a broad variety of occupational categories, general education classes furnish an extensive breadth of knowledge and a keen appreciation for moral, intellectual, and aesthetic values. The School functions in close harmony with other academic units across campus. Programs of the School are guided by the following objectives: 1. To provide ordered and meaningful inquiry into the Social Sciences as a critical element of education for life. 2. To offer at the undergraduate level appropriate specialized and professional instruction (majors and minors) in the disciplines administered within the School and to aid in the preparation of teachers. 3. To encourage research both by students and faculty, especially in those areas enabling students to become more effective members of society. 4. To enrich the intellectual and cultural climate of the college and the community it serves. Although stressing breadth of education, curricula of the School afford enough specialization and career education to prepare students for enrollment in professional schools and graduate programs or for participation in various occupational classifications immediately upon graduation. Students completing baccalaureate programs in the School will be granted either the bachelor of arts or the bachelor of science degree. Students may take departmental majors and minors in the following field: Departmental Majors *History Police Science *Political Science *Psychology *Sociology **Social Science Composite Departmental Minors Anthropology Asian Studies *History Latin American Studies Military Science Philosophy Police Science *Political Science *Psychology *Sociology *Teaching majors and minors are also available. **Teaching major only. AEROSPACE STUDIES Thomas H. Davies, Jr., Department Chairperson Professor, Thomas H. Davies, Jr., M.S., Lt. Col., USAF; Assistant Professors, George E. Harmon, M.S., Major, USAF; Daniel J. Jones, M.A., Captain, USAF. The Air Force Reserve Officer's Training Corps (AFROTC) is designed to provide each student an opportunity to earn an Air Force commission while completing degree requirements. Both the four-year and two-year AFROTC programs are offered. Four, 3M>, 3 and 2-year scholarships exist on a competitive basis for those who are physically and mentally qualified in certain career fields. These are pilot, navigator, missile launch officer, scientific/engineering, medical, and nursing. Scholarship benefits include: all tuition, books, related academic expenses, plus $100.00 a month during school. All cadets receive $100.00 a month during their last two years of AFROTC training. This program is offered through a crosstown agreement with the University of Utah. Students receive credit through Weber State College, but attend classes at both schools. General Military Course (GMC) AS100 The Air Force Today This course deals with the Air Force in the contemporary world through a study of the total force structure, strategic offensive and defensive forces, general purpose forces, and aerospace support forces. Leadership Laboratory activities are included. 210 Social Sciences Aerospace AS200 The Development of Air Power This course includes the study of the development of air power from balloons and dirigibles through the peaceful employment of US air power in relief missions and civic action programs in the late 1960's and also the air war in Southeast Asia. Leadership Laboratory activities are included. Professional Officer Course (POC) AS300 Air Force Management and Leadership An integrated management course emphasizing the individual as a manager in an Air Force milieu. The individual motivational and behavioral processes, leadership, communication, and group dynamics are covered to provide a foundation for the development of the junior officer's professional skills as an Air Force officer. The basic managerial processes involving decisionmaking, utilization of analytic aids in planning, organizing and controlling in a changing environment are emphasized as necessary professional concepts. Organizational and personal values, management of forces in change, organizational power, politics, and managerial strategy and tactics are discussed within the context of the military organization. Actual Air Force cases are used to enhance the learning and communication processes. AS400 National Security Forces in Contemporary American Society Aerospace Studies 400 is a full year course conceptually focused on the Armed Forces as an integral element of society, with an emphasis on the broad range of American civil-military relations and the environmental context in which U.S. defense policy is formulated and implemented. Special themes include: societal attitudes toward the military; the role of the professional military leader-manager in a democratic society; the fundamental values and socialization processes associated with the Armed Services: the requisites for maintaining adequate national security forces; political, economic, and social constraints on the national defense structure; the impact of technological and international developments on strategic preparedness; the manifold variables involved in the formulation and implementation of national security policy, and military justice. In each semester, students will be expected to prepare individual and group presentations for the class, write reports, and otherwise participate in group discussions, seminars, and conferences. Leadership Laboratory Leadership Laboratory is taken an average of one hour per week throughout the student's four years of enrollment in AFROTC: 60 hours in the General Military Course and 60 hours in the Professional Officer Course. Two-year program students participate in the latter only. Instruction is conducted within the framework of an organized cadet corps with a progression of experiences designed to develop each student's leadership potential. Leadership Laboratory involves a study of Air Force customs and courtesies; drill and ceremonies; career opportunities in the Air Force junior officer. Students develop their leadership potential in a practical, supervised laboratory, which typically includes field trips to Air Force installations throughout the U.S. Field Training AFROTC 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 during the summer, 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 major areas of study in the four-week Field Training program include junior officer training, aircraft, and aircrew orientation, career orientation, survival traiing, base functions and 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 and in the General Military Course including Leadership Laboratory. A schedule of accomplishment is: July through Mid-MarchApply and take the USAF Officer Qualifying tests. October through Mid-MarchAccomplish Air Force Physical Examination. Mid-MarchMeet Air Force ROTC Selection Board. June through SeptemberAttend Six Week Summer Field Training or Four Week Field Training. SeptemberEnroll in Air Force ROTC. 211 |