Social work: your degree programme in Berlin with added value

If you would like to study social work in Berlin, the KHSB is the right place for you: at the university, you will benefit from a perfect mix of theory and practice. You will acquire the latest scientific knowledge from the field of social work and related sciences.

Equipped with this knowledge, you will gain valuable practical professional experience during your studies. You will learn to adopt a research-based approach. This will enable you to critically reflect on and further develop both the profession and the academic discipline of social work. As a social worker, you will make an important contribution to society in the spirit of solidarity.

At the same time, the degree offers you a wide range of career prospects in areas with a high demand for specialists. What are you particularly interested in: children, young people or families in challenging situations? Older people, people with addictions or a history of flight or migration? Or how our society can be made sustainable and resilient?

The B.A. Social Work is a degree programme in which you set your own specialist focus. On the way to graduation, you will sharpen your personal professional profile. At the KHSB, you will receive the ideal foundation for a targeted career entry or your academic further education.

At the beginning of your degree programme, we support you in a specialist academic workshop. In small, topic-centred groups, you will develop standards and techniques for academic work. You will develop your own projects from your ideas and questions. In this way, you will build up key competences for your studies and practice and be introduced to the fields of social work in a structured way.

As a social worker, you act in a responsible role between individuals, groups, society and politics. By studying at the KHSB, you will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of social work and learn to reflect on this critically. We want to strengthen your ability to always keep professional ethical principles such as justice and solidarity in mind and to stand up for people who are denied opportunities to participate.

The special profile of the degree programme includes project studies in the 5th and 6th semesters. You can choose your specialisation and gain specific practical experience. You will deepen your knowledge and skills from theory and practice in independently designed projects. The focus can be, for example, on sustainability, criticism of racism, leadership, neighbourhood work, health promotion, gender/diversity, family/lifestyle-related social work, interculturality, health promotion or participation.

With this degree programme, you will acquire the qualifications for a successful career in the field of social work. Equipped with specialist, practical and personal skills, you can start your career straight after graduation.

After graduating, you will have

• sound knowledge of the specialised science of social work,
• learnt differentiated methods of action in social work,
• an overview of the various professional fields of social work,
• a sharpened, individual professional profile,

• important knowledge from the related sciences of social work such as psychology, law, education, politics or sociology,
• a strong ability to reflect on ethical aspects of social work,
• Counselling and intercultural skills for working with different target groups in the fields of social work,
• the ability to moderate and shape communication and interaction processes with various stakeholders in the neighbourhood, society and politics.
  

As a student on the Bachelor's degree programme in Social Work, you can also take part in supplementary courses at other universities. Together with our "neighbouring universities" in Karlshorst, the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) and the University of Economics and Law (HWR), we have created the "Social Management Cooperation Network". By attending selected courses on the Bachelor's degree programme in Public and Nonprofit Management, such as Marketing,

Management and Governance in the Nonprofit Sector or Social Sciences, you can set specialist priorities in your studies and expand your skills with regard to social management issues. HTW/HWR students can also choose courses from the curriculum of the KHSB Social Work degree programme. In the linked brochure in the Organisational Information section, you can find out which HTW/HWR units are recognised at the KHSB and you will find information on how to apply for a minor.