Squadron Officer School - Cogito Yearbook (Montgomery, AL)

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l ie-v ,fx ,,.,,i ACADEMICS The Squadron Officer School's basic philosophy is educating the whole man in the mental, physical, and ethical areas. Generally speaking, we approach the course from the whole-part-whole concept, that is, we take a broad general look at a single whole area, next we break the area into small workable segments to learn specific facts, principles, and relationships, and finally we return to the whole area and fit the newly acquired knowledge and relationships together in reforming a new whole. The communicative skills area serves well to illustrate this whole-part-whole concept. Officers look at the broad art of communicating. Next they look at the use of,ver- bal symbols and how they cause an inter-action between the communicator and the receptor. At this time, context, abstraction level, differences in meaning, aids to com- munication, and other factors that affect communication are learned and understood. Officers then practice using their knowledge through a series of speaking and writing exercises. All of this is placed into the larger, integrated whole as the officer uses his knowledge and skills in leadership exercises, seminars, and finally in three com- mon crisis employment exercises. At this point the overall time-phasing of the curricu- lum plays an important part.We have an integrated program