NAUT460 - Bridge Resource Management

Credits: 2

This course is required for all deck Midshipmen and is taken after completion of all other courses in the curriculum related to watch keeping duties and the Midshipman has completed all of the required at-sea navigation training. The course will allow for the practice, demonstration and assessment of watch keeping skills and will challenge the student’s decision making abilities, passage planning skills, and bridge team management techniques. The course is taught utilizing full mission bridge simulation technology and consists of lecture, pre-briefs, and simulated shipboard underway laboratory hours with comprehensive debriefs. It is in compliance with the 2010 Manila Amendments to the STCW Code. It is USCG-approved for Midshipmen to earn 30 days sea service. The course is taught in a 52-hour format consisting of 13 lecture hours and a total of 39 laboratory hours, incorporating laboratory passage planning time of 1 hour per week prior to each simulation scenario. This course is required of all Midshipmen and is offered during the First Term of the First Class year for B-split sea year training assignees and Second Term of First Class year for A-split assignees.

Prerequisites: NAUT 125, NAUT 270, NAUT 230,NAUT 240, BUSN 230, NAUT 310
1 class hour a week
2 laboratory hours a week

U.S. MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY

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NAUT460 - Bridge Resource Management