Social Work (B.A.)

(including state recognition)

Do you want to help people develop the skills that they need to live an independent and self-determined life? Would you like to work in and with extensive support networks when doing so? Our bachelor’s degree programme in Social Work qualifies you for this exciting task!

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Your career prospects

Social worker / Social education worker

Social workers and social education workers are all-rounders. They are usually employed by the civil service or private institutions and they work in a wide variety of areas, for example:

• General welfare services
• Health care
• Family counselling
• Women’s community centres, women’s shelters and women’s initiatives
• Intercultural social work
• Juvenile court representative (guardian ad litem)
• Child and youth welfare
• Cultural education
• Debt counselling
• School social work
• Social planning and community work
• Social psychiatry
• District work
• Offender support
• Aid for people with an addiction and drug users
• Support for the homeless

Content

What you will learn

One of the main tasks involved in social work is advocating and achieving social participation and equal opportunities, as well as establishing and securing participation in social, economic, cultural and political life.

On the basis of professionally founded theories and methods of social work, this degree programme examines scientific knowledge and practical work with regard to the social function of social work.

The programme is committed to a social culture that covers the principles of dialogue-based didactics and participatory learning in studies and teaching. It focuses on the following aspects:

• Analysing social conditions of participation and equal opportunities
• Developing professional responsibility and decision-making skills
• Reflecting on basic ethical principles

The content-based focuses of the programme include: 

• Theories, planned courses of action and methods
• Social work as an applied science
• Research-based learning with regard to organisation and lifeworlds
• Subject-socialisation development
• Participation and social exclusion 

Gewusst?

Das Bachelor-Studium kann auch als Teil der doppelten Qualifikation "Diakonik / Gemeindepädagogik und Soziale Arbeit" studiert werden.