Field Directors

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering how do you treat these classes in your program.  Do you have students take Field Experience and Seminar as two separate courses or do they they take it as one course?

As sometimes we have students who complete may not complete field experience, but may complete seminar, and it makes it tricky for us to assign the grade  when they receive an actual grade for seminar, and a pass/fail for experience

Thank you for any feedback

------------------------------
Tamlyn Ashford
Assistant Professor
Missouri Baptist university
Saint Louis MO
314 392 2245
------------------------------

Hi Tamlyn, at WVU our MSW students take a seminar course that is inclusive of their field experience. This course is set as a pass/fail course but the syllabus details assignments and states that to pass students must earn a minimum of 80% of the course points, complete the required field hours, and earn passing reviews on their field assessment completed by the field instructor.

Our BSW students take a seminar course that is separate from the field experience as they complete a competency thesis and some larger assignments. That course is graded and then they take another course for their field experience that is pass/fail and requires completion of field hours and a passing field assessment. However, the syllabus for those courses states that the courses must be taken concurrently and failure of either of the courses would require students to repeat both courses.

------------------------------
Lindsey Rinehart
Field Education Director & Clinical Instructor
West Virginia University
Morgantown WV
------------------------------

------------------------------
Alma R. Armendariz, MSW
Practicum Coordinator/Clinical Instructor
University of Texas at El Paso
(915) 747-6595
El Paso, TX 79968
------------------------------