Social work degree program
A close integration of theory and practice is characteristic of the Bachelor's degree program in Social Work at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society. Students on this degree program complete a full-time internship semester (with a minimum duration of 20 weeks) in a field of social work in the fifth semester. In this way, students get to know a selected field of work and have the opportunity to transfer theoretical insights and to recognize and examine their own professional role in the encounter with the addressees. It also guarantees them the reflective application of acquired skills and abilities. The insight into professional practice allows them to get to know and reflect on the working conditions in social work institutions and to experience the possibilities and limitations of social work and social pedagogy.
Academic support and evaluation of the practical phase takes place on the one hand on study support days and in supervisions, which take place once a month during the practical semester at the university. On the other hand, the practical semester is embedded in preparatory, accompanying and follow-up courses of an individually selected study focus. Students can currently choose from a range of eight specializations. The specialization extends from the fourth to the end of the seventh semester.
In addition to the Bachelor of Arts degree, graduates receive state recognition as a social worker (B.A.) or social education worker (B.A.).
Below you will find important information about the specialization course and the internship semester. In the guide to specialization studies you will find, among other things, descriptions of the individual specializations, the legal basis for the internship semester and information on the internship semester process. On this page you will also find the current schedules as well as the form sets, which include the training agreement for the practical semester. These are also available in English, e.g. for internships abroad.
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