Courses

The training for students of the Bachelor's degree programme in Social Work is composed of the following contents:

Title of the courseWS
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK AS A DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION 1 + 2
Propaedeutics - Introduction to the study programme1
Introduction to current theories of social work2
Introduction to methods, techniques and concepts of social work2
Professional English for Social Work2
Professional history of social work and its fields of activity2
Social philosophical and ethical foundations of social work2
COMMUNICATION AND CONVERSATION
Introduction to Communication and Conversation2
PRACTICE, SUPERVISION AND SELF-AWARENESS
Practice reflection and supervision 1 + 21
Orientation internship = 2 weeks3
RELEVANT RELATED SCIENCES
Developmental psychological tasks, conditions and changes in childhood, adolescence and adulthood2
SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH - BASICS
Introduction to scientific work3
SOCIAL PEDAGOGY - BASICS
Core competences in inpatient socio-educational work with children and young people2
CENTRAL FIELDS OF ACTION AND RELEVANT AREAS OF LAW 1+ 2
Case practice law - public, private law; family law2
Field of action - child, youth and family welfare services4
Title of the courseSS
COMMUNICATION AND CONVERSATION 
Conducting conversations in stressful situations and crisis intervention2
  
PRACTICE, SUPERVISION AND SELF-AWARENESS 
Practice reflection and supervision 1 + 21
Self-experiential personal development 12
  
RELEVANT REFERENCE SCIENCES 
Critical Social Psychological Theory of Subjects and Society2
Meso- and macro-political frame of reference of social work2
  
SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH - BASICS 
Scientific work I3
  
CENTRAL FIELDS OF ACTION AND RELEVANT AREAS OF LAW 1+ 2 
Case practice law - criminal law, criminal procedure law2
Field of action - outpatient and inpatient help for offenders3
  
COUNSELLING IN SOCIAL WORK 
Outreach low-threshold counselling in analogue and virtual spaces2
Counselling, individual support and case management3
  
PSYCHOSOCIAL DIAGNOSTICS 
Basic principles and methods of psychosocial diagnostics3
  
ECOLOGICALLY CONSCIOUS SOCIAL WORK 
Global Social Dialog & International Social Work1
  
GLOBAL SOCIAL DIALOGUE 
Human Rights & Human Dignity1
Scientific English and International Research1
  
STANDARDS DOCUMENTATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS 
Professional writing, documentation and digitisation in social work2

 

Title of the courseWS
PRACTICE, SUPERVISION AND SELF-AWARENESS 
Practice reflection and supervision 3 + 41
In-depth internship (8) = 6 weeks9
  
SOCIAL PEDAGOGY - BASICS 
Fundamentals of trauma pedagogy and psychoeducation for social pedagogical work with children and adolescents2
  
ELECTIVE SPECIALISATION IN SOCIAL PEDAGOGY (Compulsory course) 
Cross-method approaches in family support and inpatient social pedagogical work2
Inclusion pedagogy2
  
SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH - IN-DEPTH 
Scientific work 23
  
ELECTIVE SPECIALISATION IN CHILD, YOUTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (Compulsory course) 
Elective specialisation in educational and socio-political framework conditions of child, youth and family welfare services2
Elective specialisation: Methods of family-related social work and risk assessment in cases of child welfare hazards2
  
ZENTRAL FIELDS OF ACTION AND RELEVANT AREAS OF LAW 3+4 
Case Practice Law - Migration2
Field of Action Migration & Interculturality3
Case Practice Law - Social Security, Social Welfare2
Field of action Socio-material security and poverty in the case of social marginality and deprivation4
Title of the courseSS
PRACTICE, SUPERVISION AND SELF-AWARENESS 
Practice reflection and supervision 3 + 41
Professional internship (8) = 12 weeks18
  
ZENTRAL FIELDS OF ACTION AND RELEVANT AREAS OF LAW 3+4 
Case Practice Law - Health Law & Adult protection1
Field of action health, disability and clinical social work3
  
PSYCHOSOCIAL DIAGNOSTICS 
Bio-psycho-socio-cultural case analyses and treatment models2
  
ECOLOGICALLY CONSCIOUS SOCIAL WORK 
Environmental Social Work & Globalization2
  
COMMUNICATION AND CONVERSATION 
Mediation and conflict management1
  
SOCIAL PEDAGOGY - SPECIALIZATION 
Leisure & experiential education2

 

Title of the courseWS
GLOBAL SOCIAL DIALOGUE 
Philosophy & Socioeconomics (in English)2
  
COMPETENCES IN THE FIELD OF PRACTICE 
Competences in the field of practice (KIP) 1 + 23
  
PRACTICE, SUPERVISION AND SELF-AWARENESS 
Practice reflection, supervision incl. personality-oriented self-awareness 22
  
SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF SOCIAL WORK 
Professional ethics3
  
SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH - IN-DEPTH 
Research Design and Project Workshop3
  
SOCIAL PEDAGOGY - SPECIALISATION 
Discourses on professions and social pedagogical diagnostics in social work with adults2
  
SOCIAL SPACE ORIENTED GROUPS AND COMMUNITY WORK 
Social work with groups3
Social work and social space orientation & community work3
  
ELECTIVE MODULE 1 - SOCIAL SPACE ORIENTATION 
Open child and youth work in the social space - diagnostics, theories and methods1
The professional concept of social space orientation as a method in family-related social work2
Political science, pedagogical and sociological perspectives on spatial development2
  
ELECTIVE MODULE 2 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY 
Project management and creative action in participatory child and youth work2
Youth culture and in-depth forms of expression in video & photography; drama/theatre education and music3
  
CENTRAL FIELDS OF ACTION AND RELEVANT AREAS OF LAW 5+6+7 
Relationship between macro-social and individual conditions in the context of social medicine1
Field of action: work, gender and diversity3

 

Title of the courseSS
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK AS A DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION 
Current theories of social work - Specialisation2
  
COMPETENCES IN THE PRACTICAL FIELD 
Competences in Practice (KIP) 1 + 22
  
SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF SOCIAL WORK 
Current philosophical and ethical issues in social work2
  
SOCIAL PEDAGOGY - SPECIALISATION 
Sex education and gender-sensitive social pedagogy2
  
BA THESIS 
BA Thesis6
BA examination & casuistic colloquium2
  
STANDARDS DOCUMENTATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS 
Professional standards and indirect interventions in social work2
Public Relations and Lobbying in Social Work2
  
CENTRAL FIELDS OF ACTION AND RELEVANT AREAS OF LAW 5+6+7 
Case practice law - labour law, liability in professional practice2
Field of action multi-generational3
Psychological and Social Diagnostics and Intervention with Older People2
  
ECOLOGICALLY CONSCIOUS SOCIAL WORK 
Global Social Dialogue & International Social Work1
Political and Sociological Perspectives on Social Inequalities and Environmental Justice2