Welcome to the College of Distance Education
Contact us at
cde@usnwc.edu
The College of Distance Education (CDE) represents the Naval War College’s outreach program. We exist to provide executive-level education to officers of the various military services and to senior Department of Defense and other Federal employees. We offer three delivery methods: faculty-led evening seminars, a web-enabled program, and a CD-ROM based correspondence program. These courses mirror, to a large degree, the program of study offered to resident students at the College’s Newport campus. The quality of our CDE programs has been called "the best of any service college." You may find that they are more rigorous and academically demanding than many off-duty educational experiences elsewhere. So if you want to work hard, learn a lot, and earn graduate credit, a diploma, and Joint Professional Military Education (Phase I) credit, and possibly even a master's degree . . . this may be the program for you!
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In addition, CDE offers Online Professional Military Education (PME) courses via Navy Knowledge Online. These courses are available 24/7, afloat and ashore, and are self-paced to accommodate our students’ busy schedules. The online continuum consists of the following courses: Primary PME (E7 to 04), Basic PME (E4 to E6), and Introductory PME (E1 to E4). While primarily designed to address PME at key career milestones, courses can be taken at any time. Curriculum concentrates on both navy and joint learning areas to develop our Sailors and Junior Officers into well informed maritime advocates and effective joint operators/staffers.
We are proud of our programs and truly believe that they can make a difference in your success in future assignments! If you’re looking for a challenge, with clear rewards at the end of the line... we may be what you are looking for! I invite you to think about what we offer and contact us if you need more information.
Director, College of Distance Education
Overview
The College of Distance Education is to develop and administer an extension of the education program of the College of Naval Command and Staff to nonresident military officers and selected government employees. We are committed to:
* Providing an opportunity for students to obtain a Naval War College diploma by completion of a Fleet Seminar or web-enabled Correspondence Course program paralleling the educational quality of the resident program.
- Providing the student a graduate-level faculty of the highest caliber.
- Supporting the educational needs of all of our students.
- Meeting the objectives of the Military Education Policy Document.
- Achieving quality and continuous improvement.
Program for Joint Education Certification
Military students are selected to attend the College of Naval Command and Staff by their respective services. In general, all officers who attend the College of Naval Command and Staff will have bachelor's degrees--historically, on average, almost half will already have been awarded master's degrees, will have compiled outstanding performance records during their 12 to 15-year service careers to date, and will be considered to possess the potential for future achievement and promotion within their respective services and in the joint arena. While each service has its own selection process, in the case of the U.S. Navy, each annual board convened to select officers for promotion to lieutenant commander then proceeds to choose candidates for the College of Naval Command and Staff from among those lieutenant commander selectees. Attendance by civilian officials is by invitation to their Federal agencies, who in turn nominate their respective candidates using similar selection criteria.
Class Profile
Background: Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) is that portion of Professional Military Education concentrating on the instruction of joint matters in order to develop officers skilled in attaining unity of efforts across Services, interagency, non-governmental and multinational lines among other things. The Goldwater Nichols Act, which became law in 1986, requires the completion of a joint duty assignment for promotion to 0-7. JPME is that portion of Professional Military Education (PME) that supports fulfillment of the educational requirements for joint officer management.
Educational requirements for Joint Staff Officer (JSO) qualification can be met through the completion of either an accredited resident or nonresident JPME Phase I curriculum followed by the applicable Joint Forces Staff College JPME Phase II curriculum or through one of the National Defense University Senior-Level JPME curricula. The Naval War College nonresident programs have been accredited as intermediate level JPME Phase I programs.
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, has certified each Naval War College nonresident program for JPME Phase I credit. In addition, Phase I certification awarded to the NWC nonresident program graduate meets a prerequisite for acceptance into the Joint Forces Staff College, Phase II course. Appendix A reiterates JPME goals and objectives for intermediate level schools.