Third Year Schedule
(typical 4 year Navy Scholarship Option)
QTR/MTH
FALL QUARTER
(END SEP – MID DEC)
SCHOOL
EVENTS
FALL CLASSES
Optional Study Abroad
NU EVENTS:
Wildcat Football
Homecoming
Fall Intramurals: Flag
Football/Volleyball
NROTC
EVENTS
END
DEC
WB
I R
NE
TA
EK
R
WINTER QUARTER (BEG JAN – END MAR)
END MAR
SPRING QUARTER
(BEG APR – MID JUN)
STARTING
MID-JUNE
WINTER CLASSES
National Security Policy (req'd for
NROTC)
SPRING
BREAK
SPRING CLASSES
SUMMER
BREAK
NU EVENTS:
Dance Marathon
Wildcat Basketball
Fraternity/Sorority Rush
Winter Intramurals: Basketball
NU EVENTS:
Armadillo Day
Graduation
Spring Intramurals:
Softball/Soccer
NS CLASS: NAVAL
ENGINEERING
NS CLASS: NAVAL OPERATIONS &
SEAMANSHIP
DINING-IN (END APR)
WISCONSIN DRILL MEET
(END OCT)
MEMPHIS DRILL MEET
(MID APR)
SPRING REVIEW (END APR)
MILITARY BALL (END NOV)
LEGEND:
NAVAL SCIENCE CLASS
MANDATORY NROTC EVENTS
OPTIONAL EVENTS
SUMMER
CRUISE:
FIRST CLASS
CRUISE
Typical Third Year Weekly Schedule
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SAT/SUN
0600-0730
Physical Training
Drill Team Practice
Drill Team Practice
Physical Training
Free Time/
0730-0900
Naval Science
Class
Free Time
Fitness
Enhancement
Physical Training **
Naval Science
Lab
Free Time
Naval Science
Class
0900-2100
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
Extracurricular/
Study
** Fitness Enhancement Physical Training is required for midshipmen failing to meet the standards of a semi-annual physical fitness test. All Marine Options are required to
attend Physical Training on this day.
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 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings.
- All Marine Options are members of the drill team, so drill team practice is mandatory.
- Marine Options are not required to take Naval Engineering 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 Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia.
Nurse Option: There are no Naval Science Courses for the junior Nurse Option. Nurses typically start clinicals at local hospitals
during their junior year.