The department provides elective courses for majors and fields of study necessary for intellectual growth and development in the profession of arms, to include attendance at postgraduate service schools and civilian institutions. Additionally, the department contributes to cadet military, physical, intellectual, and ethical development through faculty mentorship. Finally, the department focus on the development of military and civilian faculty emphasizing academic excellence, scholarship, cadet development, service, and conducts research emphasizing DoD priorities.
Classes emphasize cadet preparation.
Instructors clarify concepts that were not clear to cadets after due preparation and perform demonstrations of chemical experiments to visually emphasize a point. Instructors then test the cadets' proficiency by making them recite, by answering questions or by solving applicable problems at the board. The faculty consists of permanently assigned military faculty, rotating military faculty, civilian faculty, and periodically a Distinguished Visiting Professor. Rotating faculty provide the bulk of instruction. The senior military faculty provides supervision, guidance, technical competence, and continuity to the department.