Swing Courses and their Consequences

Some schools of social work that offer both BSW and MSW education have students of the two programs in the same classes. At Barry College a study was done of student learning and sentiments in such courses. There was only a small amount of difference in course-relevant knowledge between the undergraduate and the graduate students at the beginning. The undergraduates were apprehensive about being in the swing course but that feeling seemed to be relieved later on. All students learned in the course but it was rated lower in quality than the other section which was for graduate students only.