Professionally supporting people in critical or precarious life situations - this is what the degree programme prepares you for. Solutions are needed in the areas of children, young people and families, in securing livelihoods, in supporting elderly, sick people or people with disabilities, in the field of migration and asylum, in problems with crime, addiction or violence.
This is what awaits you on the programme:
- Get to know the fields of action of social work
- Support and care for people in psychosocial distress and existential crises
- Practise reflection and strengthen communication skills
- Analyse the social environment and organise suitable help
- Develop solutions with clients
- Exploring complex issues and concretising goals
- Promoting self-determination and learning self-organisation
- Society and political framework conditions
Courses on specific fields of action, such as ‘Crisis intervention’, ‘Health and illness’, ‘Social work with the elderly’, ‘International and intercultural social work’, combine theoretical knowledge with practical action from the 1st to the 6th semester.