Religious Education, Social Welfare and Social Work (B.A.)

(includes Church and state recognition)

Do you want to help shape church life at the heart of people’s everyday lives? Are you maybe already involved in your local congregation or religious community? The bachelor’s degree programme in Religious Education, Social Welfare and Social Work is part of a dual qualification that qualifies students for the fields of social work, social welfare and religious education together with a bachelor’s degree qualification in Social Work over nine semesters.

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Dual bachelor’s degree
9 semesters
Full-time
240 ECTS points

 

Start in the winter semester
Darmstadt & Schwalmstadt campuses
Tuition-free
No numerus clausus

 

Your career prospects

Church social worker

Church social workers support the social welfare activities of the Church in communities, parishes, establishments and service facilities or on behalf of other private and public social work institutions.

Areas of activity in the field of Church social work and welfare include:

  • Working with elderly people
  • Working with volunteers
  • Working with adults (adult education)
  • Working with families (family education)
  • Working with children and young people
  • Children’s church services
  • Pastoral care

The dual qualification also enables graduates to work as social workers and education workers in the classic fields of activity of social work.

Includes

Two bachelor’s degrees ✔

The dual qualification achieved upon completion of this degree programme provides you with two bachelor’s degrees:

Social Work (B.A.) and Religious Education, Social Welfare and Social Work (B.A.)

State recognition ✔

You will also automatically receive state recognition as a “Social Worker / Social Education Worker”.

Against this background, your degree programme involves a large amount of practical work, namely 1,800 hours (equivalent to two semesters), which are integrated into the course across a total of four modules. The central phase of practical work is the internship semester, which entails a six-month internship block with an approved internship host, accompanied by a qualified internship supervisor and university internship adviser.

Our Praxisreferat Soziale Arbeit (Internship Office for Social Work) will support and advise you throughout your internship.

Church recognition  ✔

The dual qualification is a prerequisite for future employment as a church social worker by the Church, for example: