Ranger Challenge offers eight weeks of training covering eight separate events. Students will train 14.5 hours per week and four of the eight weekends, in preparation for the final Ranger Challenge competition. This course is only offered during the fall semester. Students learn and practice leadership techniques and study communications skills, human behavior, motivation, ethics, counseling, and general principles of organizational and individual leadership. Students also study American Military History from the French and Indian War to the War of 1812.
Students also learn effective military writing and speaking.
Small unit tactics and American Military History from the War of 1812 to the Mexican-American War are also studied.