Social Work: Local Organization of Social Participation (M.A.)
Program structure
Structure of the program
The standard period of study of the Social Work Master’s degree program: Local arrangement of social participation is a total of four semesters. The study includes three theoretic and (practical) research semesters and concludes with the Master's thesis in the fourth semester.
Competency model
The course plan stipulates nine modules that represent the entire core offering ("core competencies"): Here, the central focus areas and competence aspects of the local arrangement of social work are to be conveyed. The program supplements this core offering with a two times three modules each comprehensive specialization that allows for the conveyance of specific and thematic-specific competences of social work with a local context. One of these specializations is optional and is designed to support the own profile development. This study offer is supplemented and rounded off by three modules that convey common skills and knowledge as "general competences" and constitute the disciplinary basis.
Modules
- Social Work, Society and Community (I): (Trans-)disciplinary Theoretical Analysis
- Legal Framework of Participation / Integration at Local Government Level
- Participatory Education: Concepts and Strategies
- Practice and Evaluation Research (I)
- Neighborhood and Network Management
- Specialization module 1
- Social Policy in the Community, Governance and International Comparisons
- Organizational Development and Communal Social Planning
- Theories of Health: Concepts and Strategies of Social Work
- Research Workshop
- Project Management and Concept Development
- Specialization module 3
Options from the first semester
Special Competence II
From the first semester, students are free to select one out of three specializations (the so-called Special Competence II) to focus on an individual subject area in three subsequent semesters. These specializations are:
- Health Promotion and Diversity
- Municipal Education Management und Planning
- Fields of Action in Nonprofit Organizations