Programme
Social work stands for responsibility. It is consistently committed to the individual well-being and social participation of people. As a human rights profession, it strengthens self-determination and self-efficacy, promotes the health integrity of disadvantaged people, ensures social cohesion in the community and fights against poverty and for social justice.
Social work needs well-trained professionals who are able to respond professionally to the challenges and crises of our time. Up-to-date specialist knowledge, first-class methodological skills, reflection skills and a respectful, strength-oriented attitude are the indispensable key qualifications for future social workers.
The Bachelor's degree course in Social Work (B.A.) offers students a modern and stimulating learning environment designed by proven academics and practitioners. The lecturers provide well-founded specialist knowledge about the help that is suitable for the most diverse forms of disadvantage in the numerous fields of social work.
As a social work student, you will be able to analyze problems, conflicts and crises with confidence and reflection and develop viable solutions. You will learn the right support methods and know which helpful prevention approaches exist in the social and health care system. After graduating, you will have matured as a person, be well equipped to enter one of the exciting fields of practice and work with other professionals to help people at risk and society.
The course corresponds to the state-recognized Bachelor's degree course in Social Work and is taught in English. The change notifications to the Senate Administration and the Accreditation Council are currently being processed.
Job description and job opportunities
The Social Work (B.A.) degree program gives you the opportunity to go straight into practice or continue your studies. Or both. Because the MSB Master's degree program allow you to combine studies and work, just like the Bachelor's degree program.
If you initially only want to go into practice, as a state-recognized social worker you can choose from any field of practice. You can get started in all areas of social work with independent, church or public organizations. Whether you work with children, young people and families or the elderly - the choice is yours, because you are needed everywhere. People with specific problems such as social-emotional impairments or disabilities, mental illness, addiction or delinquent behavior also need your help.
If you want more right away, a subsequent Master's degree will qualify you for leadership and management positions in practice as well as for an academic career with the possibility of a doctoral study program.
Emphasis/Curriculum
Fundamentals of professional skills
- Introduction to Social Work Studies: history, theories and concepts
- Framework conditions for social work: politics, society and economy
- Heterogeneity and lifeworld orientation
- Social work and health: interdisciplinary case and project work
Interprofessional skills
- An interdisciplinary view of the life course: the perspective of education and social work
- An interdisciplinary view of the life course the perspective of
medicine and psychology - Ethics
- Law in social work and legal tutorials
- Aesthetic education
- Professional conduct and personal development
- Trauma and crisis
Discipline-specific skills
Choice of 2 from 4 subject areas:
- Baby guides and other early support
- Systemic work and counseling
- Psychomotricity and experiential education
- Clinical social work and rehabilitation
Practical skills
- Fields of practice and methods
- Consulting skills
- Internship support and reflection on practice
- Internship
Management and academic skills
- Scientific work
- Empirical research methods in social work I + II
- Bachelor thesis
Admission Requirements
The admission requirements are:
- Entitlement to study in accordance with § 10 BerlHG (general higher education entrance qualification, subject-specific higher education entrance qualification, entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences or comparable qualification) or
- Admission to higher education for vocationally qualified students according to § 11 BerlHG
- For foreign study applicants possibility of further studies according to § 11 BerlHG
- A pre-study internship of at least one month in a recognized social and healthcare institution
The MSB degree program is NC-free. Following your application, we will check your personal motivation in an individual admissions interview.
Tuition Fees
- Full-time: 450 euros/month
