He has employed Web home pages, with hot links to Washington political and international sites for his courses on American Government , Congress , Presidential Leadership and U.S. Foreign Policy . These course use e-mail listserves and Web threaded asynchronous discussion forums for collaborative learning by student teams. He also offers undergraduate courses on the Presidency and International Relations. As a core member of the accredited MPA faculty, he teaches the final graduate Capstone Seminar , as well as MPA courses on Leadership and Organizational Behavior. Dr. Swansbrough utilizes case studies from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government to develop undergraduate and graduate students' analytical and verbal skills.
Students often play the roles of key actors in the case study to examine policy options.
For several years, Dr. Swansbrough team taught with an English Department Professor an Interdisciplinary Honors course on The Contemporary Political Novel. In summer l996 he attended the 9th annual Tennessee Collaborative Leadership Academy, which focused on Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning . His research has involved interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues in economics, geology and history. He trained and directed six Chattanooga high school teams in participating in UTC's first International Diplomacy Competition , a day-long competition employing computerized INS simulations, a world press and closed circuit TV coverage of the proceedings. Dr. Swansbrough chaired UTC's Institute for International Studies' Advisory Board and established Chattanooga's First International Festival , which featured West German political, economic and cultural affairs.