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Department ofSocial Work and Health Care

Bachelor Program

"Social Work“

Module Guide

Valid for all students having started their studies as from the winter semester 2014/2015.

Last update: January 2015

Module BASA 1: Key competences for studies and practice of Social Work

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Course number: BASA 1

Duration: 2 semestersWhen: 1st and 2nd sem.

Workload: 360h Contact hours: 91h Individual study time: 269h

Credits: 12cp

Lectures: a) Introduction to the study course

(1st semester) b) Aisthesis: Perception and comprehension

(1st semester) c) Communication and communication skills

(2nd semester) d) Aesthetic-medial workshop

(2nd semester)

Contact hours: a) 1 SWS/ 13h b) 2 SWS/ 26h c) 2 SWS/ 26h d) 2 SWS/ 26h

Individual study time: a) 17h

b) 94h

c) 64h

d) 94h

Credits: a) 1cp b) 4cp c) 3cp d) 4cp

Compulsory module: X Compulsory optional module: Elective module: Course format:

a) seminar b) seminar c) seminar d) workshop

Class size:

a) 4 groups of 25 students each b) 6 groups of 16 students each c) 6 groups of 16 students each d) 6 groups of 16 students each

Qualification goals/ competences:

The students have knowledge of the organization of their studies with regard to form and contents. They gain, moreover, fundamental impulses for a process to be found throughout the whole study course: the acquisition of key competences with generalist relevance for their studies as well as for practical social work. They gain communication skills aiming, above all, at the ability to professionally communicate within the context of social work. The students acquire aesthetic competences, i.e. perception, interpretation and comprehension competences in the broadest sense within the context of sensory perception. They are able to reflect subjective as well as cultural perceptual patterns and their normative power shaping reality. They begin to acquire a professional attitude being able to respectively handle the different types of lifestyle in modern society – characterized by plurality and diversity – and to develop a particular sensibility for social problems. They acquire basic qualifications in at least one medium of Aesthetic Practice in order to being able to use the medium in the fields of Social Work as an instrument of perception, expression, reflection, design and/or communication, particularly in the context of public-related activities.

Contents:

The students are introduced to the organization of form and contents of the study course as well as to the relevant working techniques and strategies. They are conveyed with socio-scientific models of interpersonal communication, being introduced to the fundamentals of client-centered and solution-oriented communication and exercising interventions to handle difficult conversations. Aesthetic methods will promote the conscience of the subjectivity of human perception and the influence cultural patterns have on these. Here the special focus lies on the perception of the creative parts and chances within the process of interpretation and comprehension. In a medium of Aesthetic Practice, e.g. photography, video, theatre, dance, music

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etc. the students will work upon selected perspectives relevant for real life in the context of Social Work. In the courses 1b and 1d the students will choose one out of 6 different offers.

Usability of the module:

Bachelor study course of Social Work

Type of exam:

Subject-specific forms of exams / graded academic performance

Prerequisites for CP allocation:

Module exam passed

Weight for final grade: Module exam result (academic performance) will not be included in final grade.

Frequency of course offer:

Annual

Module representative:

Prof. Dr. Andrea Lutz-Kluge & Antje Reinhard

Module BASA 2: Social Problems and Social Work

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Duration: 2 semestersWhen: 1st und 2nd sem.


Credits: 14cp

Lectures: a) Construction and constitution of Social

Problems I (1st semester)

b) Ethical fundamentals (1st semester)

c) Social Work as historical and social form of interpretation and handling of Social Problems (2nd semester)

d) Construction and constitution of Social Problems II (2nd semester)

Contact hours: a) 3 SWS/ 39h

b) 2 SWS/ 26h

c) 2 SWS/ 26h

d) 2 SWS/ 26h


b) 64h

c) 64h

d) 94h

Credits: a) 4cp

b) 3cp

c) 3cp

d) 4cp


a) seminar b) seminar c) lecture d) seminar

Class size:



In this module students deal with selected discourses and positions with regard to the definition of the subject Social Work and with Social Work as a historical and social form of interpretation and handling of particular Social Problems. They know the professional discourse with regard to the definition and handling of the subject in Social Work, recognizing the relevance of such definition for the development of Social Work as profession and discipline. They are able to critically deal with different definition attempts, beginning to comprehend the consequences they have on different levels. In particular they begin to conceive the practical problems of selectivity – also rooting in the relation of Social Problems – of the welfare state arrangement. This handling points up the demand of criteria-led reflection and therefore also ethical problems. Students conceive Social problems and Social Work as historical products of negotiation processes of actors and actor groups influenced by individual interests, against the background of social structures, dynamics and inequality, and the actors in Social Work as social actors in these processes. They are aware of the special importance mass media and the public influenced by mass media have with regard to this process of a "career of Social Problems". They are able to reflect both certain Social Problem patterns and their own pre- or semi-professional problem definitions, they begin to relate these to problems of Social Work as well as to those of their addressees and users, opening them interrogatively and asking for approaches for reinterpretation and redefinition of particular problem patterns. They are able to ethically reflect the general context of subject definition and handling in Social Work. The module also gives a first overview on the fields of Social Work and its function, organization and working methods.

Contents: Discourses and positions with regard to the "subject" of Social Work; in

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connection with problems of subject handling and its relevance for Social Work as profession and discipline,

Social Work as historical and social form of interpretation and handling of "its subject"; reflective opening on the problem of conflicts embedded,

Basic definitions of subject-related ethical reflexivity, Critical and reflective discussion with regard to the construction and constitution

of Social Problems, in the perspective of the relation of Social Problems of the current welfare arrangement,

Introduction to the fields of Social Work.



Types of exams:

Presentation and written reflection / graded academic performance


Module exam passed



Annual


Prof. Dr. Hans Ebli & Dr. Thomas Wagner

Module BASA 3: Person – Development and Education

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Course Number: BASA 3



Credits: 11cp

Lectures:

a) Theories of Psychology and Social

Psychology, concepts of man and their relevance for Social Work (1st semester)

b) Educational principles of human development (1st semester)

c) Society and determinants of succeeding development of human behavior (2nd semester)

d) Aesthetic and Socio-Cultural Education (2nd semester)

Contact hours:

a) 2 SWS/ 26h

b) 2 SWS/ 26h c) 2 SWS/ 26h d) 1 SWS/ 13h


b) 64h c) 64h

d) 47h

Credits: a) 3cp

b) 3cp c) 3cp

d) 2cp


a) seminar b) seminar c) seminar d) seminar

Class size:



Students are able to rate and promote human processes of development, socialization and education. They are aware of the relevance of social, psychosocial, educational, aesthetical, cultural and medial factors in these processes. Students know psychological concepts to describe and explain human experience, behavior and acting, they are familiar with important fundamental terms and perspectives of pedagogy and psychology, being able to reflect these critically. They know psycho-logical and aesthetical fundamentals of human communication and are able to use the knowledge of developmental psychology, learning theory, communication theory as well as aesthetical and educational concepts for the forms of intervention in Social Work.

Contents:

The students are provided with different concepts and models of personality development as well as concepts of man and society and gender related hereto. They are introduced to the fundamentals of aesthetical education, aesthetical perception and aesthetical expression. Here the connections between theories and guiding concepts of society are reflected epistemologically. Students work on the educational, anthropological, historical, culture-specific and social psychological fundamentals of social self-conception and social acting as well as on relevant approaches of interpersonal communication, aesthetical communication and educational interaction.



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Types of exams:

Term paper or presentation / graded academic performance


Module exam passed

Weight for final grade:

Module exam result (academic performance) will not be included in final grade.


Annual


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Krieger

Module BASA 4: Law in Social Work I

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Credits: 11cp

Lectures: a) Fundamentals of Civil Law

(1st semester) b) Fundamentals of Constitutional and

Administrative Law (1st semester) c) Family Law I

(2nd semester) d) Social Administrative Law and

fundamentals of Youth Welfare (2nd semester)

Contact hours: a) 2 SWS/ 26h b) 2 SWS/ 26h c) 2 SWS/ 26h d) 1 SWS/ 13h

Individual study time: a) 64h b) 64h c) 64h d) 47h



a) seminar b) lecture c) lecture d) lecture

Class size:



Students have an overview of the legal regulations relevant for Social Work. They begin to understand the legal methods and to explore these with an application-oriented focus. Thus students learn, step by step, to work independently and case-relatedly with legal norms. In the field of public law students know the relevant framework of public administration. They are able to put social administration action in the context of its public and legal relations and to evaluate them. Students know, furthermore, the procedural fundamentals of administrative action. Students know the range of administrative action and the procedural requirements for lawful administrative action. They know the organization, the structures and the tasks of child and youth welfare. They are able to carry out case-related evaluation of administrative action with regard to its compliance with law and to develop appropriate strategies. In the field of family law students know the fundamental legislative regulations structuring the family. On this basis they are able to analyze relevant legal problems case-relatedly and to find legal solutions.

Contents:

In this module the students deal with the fundamentals of civil and public law with regard to Social Work. They are trained in legal methodology, getting familiar, at the same time, with the relevant legal conditions, requirements and possibilities to react. The students learn to analyze the acting of private citizens and of authorities, to evaluate its legal aspects and to develop appropriate solutions.



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Type of exams:

Written exam / graded academic performance


Module exam passed



Annual


Prof. Dr. Anne Lorenz

Module BASA 5: Socio-economic fundamentals of Social Work

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Credits: 12cp

Lectures: a) Sociological Terms and Perspectives

(1st semester) b) Social Policy I

(1st semester) c) Economy and Society

(2nd semester) Compulsory optional (1 out of 2):

d) Sociology of Social Change

(2nd semester) or e) Social Policy II (2nd semester)


b) 2 SWS/ 26h c) 2 SWS/ 26h

d) 2 SWS / 26h e) 2 SWS/ 26h

Individual study time:

a) 64h

b) 64h c) 64h

d) 64h e) 64h

Credits: a) 3cp

b) 3cp c) 3cp

d) 3cp e) 3cp

Compulsory module: X Compulsory optional module: X Elective module: Course format:

a) lecture b) lecture c) seminar d) seminar (compulsory optional) e) lecture (compulsory optional)

Class size:

a) 3 groups of 33 students each b) 2 groups of 50 students each c) 3 groups of 33 students each d) and e) total of 4 groups of 25 students each


The economic development of society and the way it is influenced by collective action or rather by social large groups – these are the determinants of social change in general and of Social Work in particular. Students are able to estimate these connections and the social structures with regard to its relevance for the development of social-work theory and practice. They dispose, on the one hand, of conceptual instruments enabling them to orient themselves within the context of socio-scientific and socio-economic problems and to grasp and evaluate the processes of social change. On the other hand, they have an overview of history, goals and institutionalization of social policy as well as of the economic and political principles of the modern social and welfare state. Students are able to recognize the role of diverging social interests and the distribution of power – especially between the poles of economic freedom and social freedom – in the political process of the practical design of Social Work conditions. They are aware, moreover, of the role of social movements and other social actors in this context.

Contents:

History and aspects of sociology and of social policy and their relevance for Social Work,

The individual, his social embedding and the structures of social security benefits,

Social policy, social change and social movements – interdependencies of practice and the history of ideas,

Political - economic principles and implementation of the modern social

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welfare state and processes and driving forces of changing political systems. Benefits and problems in selected parts of social security and fundamentals of

distributional policy with regard to financing, Challenges of globalization for social policy and social cohesion, Theories of social change and selected changes of the social structure in

Germany as well as its relevance for Social Work.



Types of exams: Written exam or term paper or subject-specific forms of exams / graded academic performance


Module exam passed



Annual


Prof. Dr. Jörg Reitzig

Module BASA 6: Theories and casuistic of Social Work

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Duration: 2 semestersWhen: 3rd and 4th sem.


Credits: 12cp

Lectures: a) Professionalization / Patterns of

professionalization in Social Work (3rd semester)

b) Theories in Social Work I (3rd semester) c) Professional ethics

(3rd semester) d) Professional acting in case work

(4th semester) e) Theories in Social Work II (4th semester)


b) 2 SWS/ 26h c) 2 SWS/ 26h

d) 2 SWS/ 26h e) 1 SWS/ 13h


a) 64h

b) 34h c) 34h

d) 64h e) 47h

Credits: a) 3cp

b) 2cp c) 2cp

d) 3cp e) 2cp


a) seminar b) seminar c) seminar d) seminar e) seminar

Class size:

a) 3 groups of 33 students each b) 3 groups of 33 students each c) 3 groups of 33 students each d) 3 groups of 33 students each e) 6 groups of 16 students each


In this module students deal with the recent history of Social Work theory, with current theory discourses in Social Work and with positions of scientific theory as the basis of the theories. In particular they deal with discourses on the theory of professionalization and the relevant models and patterns of professionalization of Social Work as well as with scientific positions with regard to the relationship between theory and practice in Social Work. Dealing with the structure and paradoxes of professional acting, the students face up challenges which reveal criteria-led reflexivity of the subject and ethical judgment as a constitutive element for professional acting. Students are able to recognize the relevant ethical problems and challenges of Social Work, on the level of their theory construction, their professional self-determination and especially on the level of professional acting. They know the principles of professional ethics with regard to Social Work. They are able to identify and reflect the ethical problems related to cases typical for the field of work, to discuss them on the basis of different ethical concepts and thus arrive at decisions of a value-driven judgment. Students know the theoretical fundamentals of methodical acting, the relevant models of methodically controlled case approach and of case work, they are aware of the problems and limits of methodical possibilities of case approach and case work in Social Work. They know the peculiarities of the organizational-institutional frame of Social Work as professional practice and are able to recognize and reflect inherent conflicts and contradictions. Students are motivated to reflect their own professional attitudes; they are called to relate the knowledge gained in the module seminars and in the debate on seminar

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contents systematically and in a structured manner to case studies within the field of Social Work.

Contents:

Current theory discourses in Social Work, Recent history of theory construction, Relevant discourses on theory of professionalization as well as models and

patterns of professionalization of Social Work, Positions of scientific theory in theory construction, Relationship between theory and practice in Social Work, Structure and paradoxes of professional acting in Social Work, Discourses and positions of professional ethics, Theoretical fundamentals of methodical acting; models of methodically

controlled case approach and of case work in Social Work, Peculiarities of the organizational-institutional frame of Social Work as

professional practice, inherent conflicts and contradictions.



Types of exams: Oral exam or term paper / exam performance


Module exam passed

Weight for final grade: Module exam result (exam performance) is weighted singly, 1/12 of it being counted in final grade.


Annual


Prof. Dr. Peter Rahn

Module BASA 7: Introduction to theory and practice of methods in Social Work

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Duration: 2 semesters

When: 3rd and 4th sem.


Credits: 6cp

Lectures: Compulsory optional (1 out of 4): Block I: Introduction to theory and practice of… a) … Socio-educational counselling

(3rd semester) or b) … Socio-educational teamwork

(3rd semester) or c) … Social space oriented acting

(3rd semester) or d) … Reconstructive procedures of case and

biography Work (3rd semester)

Compulsory optional (1 out of 4):

Block II consists of up to four further course offers to be selected each semester (7e - 7h), naming e.g.

Block II: Introduction to theory and practice

of... (all of them offered in 4th sem..) … Public Relations … Empowerment … Trauma Work as Social Work method … Aesthetic practice as practice-oriented

method of intervention … Systemic methods

Contact hours: a) 2 SWS/ 26h b) 2 SWS/ 26h c ) 2 SWS/ 26h d ) 2 SWS/ 26h

e) - h) 2 SWS/ 26h each


a) 64h b) 64h c) 64h d) 64h

e) - h) each 64h


e) - h) each 3cp


All module courses offered are "exercise courses", meaning to focus on key competences.

Class size:

a) - d): 8 groups of 12 students each e) - h): max. of 8 groups of 12 students each


On the basis of reflected exercises students have dealt with practical forms of theory-related methodical acting relevant for Social Work, being able to estimate the potentials of the respective work / method approaches with regard to addressees, context and subject. They know the specific basic assumptions and demands for acting of the relevant Social Work methods, having studied essential method elements and techniques. Students are partly able to reflectively transform essential subject-related standards of the relevant work / method approaches into actions and interventions, considering

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typical frameworks for acting and specific tasks of Social Work, and begin to critically-reflectively deal with existing and partly self-made methods of methodical acting. Viewing the specific structural conditions of acting within Social Work the students begin to comprehend the challenges for professional acting caught between structuring and situational openness, closeness and distance, assistance and control. They become aware of the prerequisites, chances and limits of methodical acting in Social Work.

Contents:

Contents vary, according to specific course.



Types of exams: Presentation or subject-specific forms of exams / ungraded academic performance


Module exam passed

Weight for final grade: Ungraded academic performance is not relevant for final grade.


Block I (courses 7a) - 7d)) offered every winter semester, additionally open for 1st semester. Block II (courses 7e) - 7h)) offered every summer semester, additionally open for 2nd semester.


Dr. Sabine Fischer & Dipl. Pädagoge, Dipl. Sozialarbeiter (FH) Michael Dillmann

Module BASA 8: Living in difficult situations

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Duration: 2 semesters When: 3rd and 4th sem.


Credits: 9cp

Lectures: a) Systems – Life Situations – Living

Environments I (3rd semester)

b) Crises in Life I (3rd semester)

Compulsory optional (1 out of 2):

c) Systems – Life Situations – Living

Environments II (4th semester)

or d) Crises in Life II (4th semester)

Contact hours: a) 2 SWS/ 26h b) 2 SWS/ 26h

c) 2 SWS/ 26h

d) 2 SWS/ 26h


a) 64h b) 64h

c) 64h

d) 64h

Credits: a) 3cp b) 3cp

c) 3cp d) 3cp

Compulsory Module: X Compulsory optional module: X Elective module: Course format:

a) seminar b) seminar c) seminar (compulsory optional) d) seminar (compulsory optional)

Class size:

a) 3 groups of 33 students each b) 3 groups of 33 students each c) and d) total of 4 groups of 25 students each


Students know living environment oriented and systemic theories and concepts to analyze live situations, institutions of education and socialization. They know theories and concepts of crises in life as well as of health and illness from different disciplines and perspectives (psychiatry, social psychiatry, medicine, psychology, education and Social Work), being able to reflect their relevance with regard to life crises and life situations. Students are able to reflect different analysis perspectives and their implications for practice and interventions. They deal with the problem of medical/ psychiatric diagnostics and its relevance for Social Work. They are able to estimate its possibilities and limits for Social Work.

Contents:

In view of different paradigms, especially with regard to life environment orientation, students acquire basic knowledge in order to be able to estimate educational processes and conditions of development of socialization and evaluate them as conditions for marginalization, but also as individual resources of life skills. They acquire methodical knowledge to analyze life situations from different scientific perspectives: e.g. from the phenomenological, eco-social, systemic, hegemony-theoretical and subject-oriented point of view, also with regard to the life situation of children and young people. On the basis of a discursive and reflective analysis of the perception of health and illness students approach knowledge multidisciplinary focused on psychical crises and realize models and procedures of psycho-social work in stressful situations. Besides psycho-social, psychological and medical possibilities of intervention, case-oriented applications of systemic, living environment-oriented, subject-oriented and social-psychiatric approaches are also dealt with.



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Types of exam: Presentation or term paper or subject-specific forms of exams / exam performance


Module exam passed



Annual


Dr. Charlotte Jurk

Module BASA 9: Law in Social Work II

e) 49h

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Duration: 2 semestersWhen: 3rd and 4th sem.


Credits: 10cp

Lectures:

a) Social Security Code II (3rd semester)

Compulsory optionals (1 block out of 3):

b) Social Security Code XII and Block I

c) Guardianship Law (3rd semester) or d) Social Security

Code VIII and Block II e) Family Law II

(3rd semester) or f) Criminal Law and g) Social Security Block III Code VIII (3rd semester)

h) Case study seminar / Exercise course

(4th semester)

Contact hours:

a) 2 SWS/ 26h

b) 2 SWS/ 26h c) 2 SWS/ 26h

d) 2 SWS/ 26h e) 2 SWS/ 26h

f) 2 SWS/ 26h g) 2 SWS/ 26h

h) 2 SWS/ 26h


a) 34h

b) 49h c) 49h d) 49h

f) 49h g) 49h

h) 64h

Credits:

a) 2cp

b) and c) 5cp

d) and e) 5cp

f) and g) 5cp

h) 3cp


a) lecture b) and c) seminar (compulsory optionals) d) and e) seminar (compulsory optionals) f) and g) seminar (compulsory optionals) e) exercise course

Class size:

a) 3 groups of 33 students each b) - g) total of 9 groups of 22 students each h) 4 groups of 25 students each


Students know contents and tasks of the Social Security Code II. Furthermore they have special legal knowledge with regard to their field of work. They are able to apply their knowledge on cross-jurisdictional issues, with the help of complex cases, and to solve them according to the legal method.

Contents:

In this module students explore the special subjects of public and private law relevant for Social Work. Here they get information on the regulations of the Social Security Code II. At the same time they take up special problems, thus deepening their knowledge of public and civil law: Guardianship and Social Welfare Law, Family Law and Child and Youth Services Act, Criminal Law and Child and Youth Services Act. In case study seminars the students work upon legal solutions for complex matters of different fields of Social Work taking over the legal point of view.



Types of exam: Written exam / exam performance

Prerequesites for CP allocation:

Module exam passed

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Annual


Prof. Dr. Andreas Rein & Prof Dr. Anne Lorenz

Module BASA 10: Social exclusion and participation

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Duration: 2 semesters When: 3rd and 4th sem.


Credits: 10cp

Lectures: Compulsory Optionals (2 out of 3):

a) Poverty and social inequality

(3rd semester) and/ or b) Social Work in the context of social

contradictions: assistance and control (3rd semester)

and/ or c) Psycho-social connections of social

exclusion and participation (3rd semester)

d) Social exclusion, participation and Social

Work (4th semester)

Compulsory Optionals (1 out of 2): e) Aspects of european and international

Social Policy and Social Work (4th semester)

or f) Fundamentals of philosophy and social

science (4th semester)

Contact hours: a) 2 SWS/ 26h b) 2 SWS/ 26h

c) 2 SWS/ 26h

d) 2 SWS/ 26h

e) 2 SWS/ 26h

f) 2 SWS/ 26h


a) 34h b) 34h

c) 34h

d) 64h

e) 64h

f) 64h


c) 2cp

d) 3cp

e) 3cp f) 3cp


a) seminar (compulsory optional) b) seminar (compulsory optional) c) seminar (compulsory optional) d) seminar e) seminar (compulsory optional) f) seminar (compulsory optional)

Class size:

a) - c) total of 6 groups of 33 students each d) 3 groups of 33 students each e) and f) total of 4 groups of 25 students each


Students know the essential theories and different dimensions of poverty and social inequality, assistance and control, social exclusion and participation as well as social justice. They are able to critically deal with these approaches and the relevant empirical reports of social research. Students know the relevance of exclusion processes for the appearance and handling of difficult living situations and for the social structures. They know the complexity of normative and every-day conceptions of participation in society and the controversial relation between assistance and control. In this context they know the relevance of psycho-social aspects; they have the possibility to critically deal with hegemonic and anti-hegemonic sociopolitical concepts and social science theories as well as with normative and discursive orders.

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They are able to reflect the formats and functions of Social Work in these structures and processes and to draw relevant conclusions with regard to the possibilities and limits of theory and practice of Social Work.

Contents:

Theories and aspects of social inequality as well as structures of social reproduction of poverty,

Empirical reports on selected levels of social inequality and poverty, Social effects of social inequality and precarity, Theories and concepts of assistance and control in the context of Social Work

and (critical) criminology, Forms, functions and authorities of social control and processes of

categorization and labeling related herewith in the fields of "Crime & Punishment and Weakness & Welfare" (Steinert/Cremer-Schäfer),

Every-day and psycho-social aspects of inequality and exclusion, Psycho-social work in (structural) contexts of violence, Relevance of social discourses and views of humankind for the subjects, Theory and empiricism of social exclusion and participation in the welfare

state, Socio-philosophical traditions of thought with regard to the relation of

power/ domination and self-determination, Legitimation and hegemony – the relation of social justice and injustice, Participation, distribution, qualification: parameters in the sociopolitical

debate of justice, Selected theories to justify and criticize social balances of power and social

orders, International and transnational theory and practice.



Types of exam: Oral exam or term paper or written exam or subject-specific forms of exams/ exam performance


Module exam passed



Annual


Prof. Dr. Ellen Bareis & Prof. Dr. Jörg Reitzig

Module BASA 11: Scientific Work / Research

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Duration: 4 semestersWhen: 1st to 4th sem.


Credits : 6cp

Lectures:

a) Introduction to Scientific Work / Working with texts (in the first four semesters)

b) Introduction to Scientific Work / Writing Workshop (in the first four semesters)

c) Methods of Social Research (2nd or 4th semester)

Contact hours: a) 2 SWS/ 26h b) 1 SWS/ 13h c) 2 SWS/ 26h


a) 34h b) 47h c) 34h

Credits: a) 2cp b) 2cp c) 2cp


a) seminar b) seminar c) seminar

Class size:

a) 6 groups of 16 students each b) 6 groups of 16 students each c) 4 groups of 25 students each


The students are able to work on scientific texts, on the basis of a question. They are able to read, understand and critically examine scientific texts. They are able to understand theses, argumentation and structure context of texts. Students are familiar with the formal requirements of scientific writing. They make their first experience in writing academic texts. The students know the different concepts of science (general orientation of the philosophy of science / research paradigms). They are able to efficiently research and document literature. The students know and are familiar with the essential basic terms of qualitative and quantitative social research. They are able to apply at least one common method of data collection and evaluation relevant for Social Work research. They know the fundamentals of planning, implementation and evaluation of a research project. They are able to illustrate in their Bachelor thesis the application of a selected research method by the research performance.

Contents:

The students learn the different possibilities of working on scientific texts. They deal with reading methods and techniques, they learn to work through texts, reflect the importance of underlining, marking and of marginal notes. In this module students work through selected texts with regard to argument schemes or the examination of arguments, and they learn methods of condensed text processing. Moreover, the students have the opportunity to practice text writing. Besides the formal aspects of academic writing (e.g. citation) an analysis of fundamental forms of writing is done (e.g. writing style, argumentation, handling one own's thoughts). The focus lies on the exercise of writing itself, the students' work on their own way of academic writing. The module gives an overview of quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and evaluation, the relevant research paradigms are illustrated and the relevance of Social Work research methods is discussed. Students get to know different methods of literature research and knowledge organization, practicing on them as an example. Furthermore, the students intensively learn at least one method of data collection and evaluation, being enabled to achieve their own research performance.

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Types of exam: Subject-specific forms of exams / ungraded academic performance


Module exam passed

Weight for final grade: Ungraded academic performance is not relevant for final grade.


Courses a) and b) will be offered every semester (3 groups each). Course c) will be offered every summer semester (4 groups).


Prof. Dr. Arnd Götzelmann & Prof. Dr. Peter Rahn

Module BASA 12: Focus studies

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Duration: 2 semestersWhen: 4th - 7th sem.

Workload: 1440h, incl.: 750h.internship attend Contact hours: 906h Individual study time: 534h

Credits: 48cp

Lectures: a) Study focus

(4th semester) b) Organization of Social Work

(4th semester) c) Place of learning: practical experience

(5th semester) d) Study focus (complementary study days)

(5th semester) e) Supervision

(5th semester)

f) Study focus (6th semester)

g) Organization of Social Work (6th semester)

h) Study focus (7th semester)

Contact hours: a) 3 SWS/ 39h b) 2 SWS/ 26h c) - e) attendance: 20 weeks full time internship (20 x 37.5h = 750h) incl.: contact hours: c) instruction intern-

ship: min. 300h (20 weeks x 3h daily)

d) 3 SWS/ 39h e) 1.5 SWS/ 19.5h

f) 3 SWS/ 39h g) 1 SWS/ 13h h) 3 SWS/ 39h


a) 81h

b) 64h

c) - e) 150h

f) 81h

g) 47h

h) 111h

Credits: a) 4cp

b) 3cp

c) - e) total of 30cp

f) 4cp

g) 2cp

h) 5cp


a) exercise course b) lecture c) internship d) seminar e) supervision f) exercise course g) exercise course h) exercise course

Class size:

a) 8 groups of 12 students each b) 2 groups of 50 students each c) 1:1 (student – instruction) d) 8 groups of 12 students each e) 8 groups of 12 students each f) 8 groups of 12 students each g) 3 groups of 33 students each h) 8 groups of 12 students each


On the basis of a first systematic approach students begin to deal with specific problems and tasks, with the structural framework for acting, the technical, typical and personal requirements as well as conceptual developments of the field of Social Work relevant for their internship. They begin to weigh, decide and professionally implement possible strategies of solution and methods taking into account tasks, addressees, context and the case. The students know Social Work as professional practice in specific socio-administrative contexts because of 'their' field of work. They have gained knowledge and skills while working on certain immediate, step-by-step, instructed and independent tasks.

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Students are able, in specific contexts of professional practice, to use their knowledge, understanding and abilities purposefully, sensitively with regard to context and in a solution-orientated manner in order to appropriately determine manifold problems and tasks of this practice – against the background of scientific knowledge – to weigh, decide and support possible solution strategies and methods led by criteria as well as to plan, implement, reflect and evaluate interventions. They are sufficiently able to responsibly and adequately design their role and its relations to clients, colleagues in their internship as well as to cooperation partners in this job. Furthermore, students begin to deal with the different types of role and relation design and their institutional frames, in the sense of critical Social Work. A special cross-sectional topic of the module is the field of "organization". The students acquire a general understanding of "organization" as a purposeful acting unity. They know the classical organizational theories, incl. the parts of organization (formal and informal structures, personnel, resources, concepts, supporters), they are able to orient themselves in organizations. They know the differentiated field of organizational forms with regard to personal social services as well as their general conditions and inherent contradictions. The supporter system in Germany and tendencies of modernization (from New Control to network models) are well known. The students are familiar with the special requirements for professional practice in socio-administrative and institutionalized contexts. The students begin to develop acting and planning competence. They are aware of the structural tension between organizational interest and users' interest, being able to reflectively handle diverging expectations and targets. The fifth semester which is a practical study semester includes the complementary study days (course BASA 12d) providing reflection, integration and evaluation of "practical experience as place of learning". The complementary study days promote and support the integration of the students' practical experience into their studies, providing the evaluation of this stage of study – in view of the general and specific learning targets listed in the curriculum. Students get a deeper insight into the manifold problems and tasks and the different practices of various Social Work institutions in the study focus they have chosen. They are able to assign their experience to scientific findings. The students are familiar with the methods of 'supervision' and 'peer consulting'. They are able to use these methods for the qualification of their role and relationship design. Students have developed their self-perception and perception of others. They are aware of the special relevance of 'personality' and 'attitude' (solidarity and empathy, ability to make a decision and to handle conflicts, stability and resilience) in intervention processes. With regard to this professional field students have acquired broad and specific competences.

Contents:

The contents of the particular focus courses as well as of the complementary study days will be determined by the students together with the teachers (focus’ manager). Contents examples: Concerns, qualification goals and organization of core courses related to the

vocational field, Design possibilities and performance requirements within the focus courses

related to the vocational field, With regard to the internship: Dealing with problems and tasks, the framework,

the technical, typical and personal requirements, the conceptual developments in the vocational field as well the conception of the internship.

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The training program designed by the employer together with the student is the basis, documenting the schedule, organization and contents of this training unit,

Concluding and extensive follow-up of the practical study semester, e.g. by dealing with questions from students against the background of their practical experience,

Working with the 'material' contributed by students from their internship.

The study focuses are interdisciplinary, each of them normally being tutored by two teachers ("Teamteaching" in course 12a (4th semester) and 12d (5th semester)).

Contents of frame courses on the organization of Social Work: Organization of Social Work (theory, forms, support system and current

developments),

Project-related development of organization and concept in specific fields of Social Work.



Types of exam: Regular attendance of preparatory courses in the focus module (BASA 12a and BASA 12b, 4th semester) as exam prerequisite. Internship report and written exam or term paper or presentation or oral exam or subject-specific forms of exams / exam performance


Module exam passed and proof according to § 6 subsec. 4 of the internship regulations.

Weight for final grade: Module result is calculated as arithmetic average taken from both results of the aforementioned two exam performances. Module exam result is weighted double, 1/6 of it being counted in final grade.


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Dipl. Pädagoge, Dipl. Sozialarbeiter (FH) Michael Dillmann

Module BASA 13: Criticism and perspectives of Social Work

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Duration: 2 semestersWhen: 6th and 7th sem.


Credits: 13cp

Lectures:

a) Consequences of institutionalization of Social Work – criticism and perspectives I

(6th semester) b) Aesthetical practice: specific social utopia

and perspectives of Social Work (6th semester)

c) Consequences of the institutionalization of Social Work – criticism and perspectives II

(7th semester) d) Current problems of professional ethics

(7th semester)

Contact hours:

a) 3 SWS/ 39h b) 2 SWS/ 26h

c) 1 SWS/ 13h d) 2 SWS/ 26h

Individual study time: a) 81h b) 64h

c) 77h d) 64h

Credits:

a) 4cp b) 3cp

c) 3cp d) 3cp

Compulsory module: X Compulsory optional module: Elective module:

Course format:

a) seminar b) project c) seminar d) seminar

Class size:



In this module students deal with critical-reflexive articles and positions based on social theory of a debate with the institution 'Social Work' in the historical welfare state-related social arrangement, i.e. with the tradition of criticism of Social Work continuing to constitute via these articles and positions. Here large space is given to the debate on the current change of the welfare state arrangement and the institution 'Social Work', particularly its effects on addressees and users of Social Work, as well as the question regarding possibilities and perspectives of critical-reflexive Social Work. Students' experience from their practical semester should be included. In the first part of the module (6th semester) students take part in a project of Aesthetical Education and Practice which are to complement and promote their subject- and problem-related debate and their development work, creatively using the potentials of Aesthetical Education and Practice. With regard to the module subject: "Criticism and Perspectives of Social Work" the students have adequate fundamental knowledge. They are able, furthermore, to recognize the connections of this subject, asking questions of social science, such as of social theory, state theory and socio-philosophy and ethics. Students know the relevant discourses and positions on the subject "Criticism and Perspectives of Social Work". They are able to question these, on a technical and ethical basis, with regard to the aspect which spaces they might open for the acquisition and use by the addressees of Social Work themselves.

Contents:

Articles and positions of a critical-reflexive debate with the institution Social Work based on social theory,

Current change of the welfare state and the welfare institution 'Social Work' –

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effects and consequences for addressees and users of Social Work, Opportunities and perspectives of critical-reflexive Social Work, Current challenges of professional ethics of Social Work



Types of exam: Oral exam or term paper / exam performance


Module exam passed

Weight for final grade:

Module exam result (exam performance) is weighted singly, 1/12 of it being counted in final grade.


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Dipl. Pädagogin, Dipl. Sozialarbeiterin (FH) Barbara Weiler

Module BASA 14: Projects in Practice and Research of Social Work

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Course number: BASW 14



Credits: 14cp

Lectures: 14a) Project-course I (6th semester) 14b) Project-course II (7th semester) Compulsory Optional: Changing course offer, e.g.:

Consulting: dept consulting, mediation, etc.,

School social work, Open youth work, Research: e.g. dealing with

research reports on social work science, collaboration in a uni-versity research project

Project management with regard to social and health care,

Social management, Social justice: e.g. guardianship

law, Didactics of individualized

learning and support processes in Social Work,

Project work, e.g. socio-culture/ Community Art,

Social work as ”Diakonik”, Media Pedagogy, Drama Education.


b) 2 SWS/ 26h


b) 184h

Credits: a) 7cp

b) 7cp


a) exercise course / project workshop b) exercise course / project workshop

Class size:

a) 6 groups of 16 students each b) 6 groups of 16 students each

Qualification goals/ Competences:

With an open profile module 14 – as compulsory optional module – aims at further specialization and individual profiling of the students within their studies by deepening or re-opening other fields of knowledge and competences to research and to act relevant for Social Work. Courses offered aim at systematically opening up questions relevant for Social Work and, as the case may be, interesting for cross-field and perhaps cross-disciplinary work and related to practice and/or research.

Contents:

Courses offered in module 14 have been planned as a dynamic element within the study course. Thus the individual module 14 courses can take up – changing from one class to the next, if necessary – incentives and specific proposals from the teaching-practice-dialogue institutionalized in the area of study or from the students' or teachers' side. Individual specialization by deepening or re-opening fields of knowledge

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and competences to research and to act relevant for Social Work is optional for the students – according to the course they have chosen – e.g. by dealing with another field of professional practice of Social Work (besides the one of their study focus, see module 12), with problems of Social Work research (e.g. by collaborating in a university research project), with cross-sectional issues related to Social Work, e.g. "Project Management in Social and Health Care", "Social Management", etc. or within practice projects of Social Work, etc.



Types of exam: Term paper or written exam or presentation or subject-specific forms of exams / exam performance


Module exam passed



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Prof. Dr. Arnd Götzelmann & Prof. Dr. Andrea Lutz-Kluge

Module BASA 15: Law in Social Work III

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Duration: 1 semesterWhen: 6th sem.

Workload: 210h Contact time: 65h Individual study time: 145h

Credits: 7cp

Lectures: a) Professional law of Social Work

(6th semester) b) Special fields of Law in Social Work

(6th semester)

Contact time: a) 3 SWS/ 39h b) 2 SWS/ 26h


a) 81h b) 64h



a) seminar b) seminar

Class size:

a) 3 groups of 33 students each b) 4 groups of 25 students each


Students are familiar with the legal guidelines relevant for their own professional activities. They know the legal requirements with regard to confidentiality within their social work activities as well as the principles of labor law related to them. Students have a wide legal knowledge of one essential area relevant for Social Work. The right of the securing of existence, the right of residence, special problems of the family and youth welfare law is an example of possible course offers.

Contents:

In this module students deal with particular legal problems arising in specific fields of Social Work. They work on the relevant legal guidelines, being enabled to analyze the related legal problems and to develop strategies for solution. Here the focus is put on the double function of law which structures not only the field of activities but also the work of the social worker. Thus the students also deal with the legal guidelines relevant for their own professional activities.



Types of exam:

Written or oral exam / exam performance


Module exam passed



Annual


Prof. Dr. Andreas Rein

Module BASA16: Research colloquium and Bachelor thesis

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Workload: 450h Contact time: 26h Individual study time: 424h

Credits: 15cp

Lectures: a) Fundamentals of writing Bachelor thesis/

colloquium I (6th semester)

b) Writing and supervision of Bachelor thesis I (6th semester)

c) Fundamentals of writing Bachelor thesis/ colloquium II (7th semester)

d) Writing and supervision of Bachelor thesis II (7th semester)

Contact time: a) 1 SWS/ 13h

c) 1 SWS/ 13h


a) 47h b) 30h c) 17h d) 330h

Credits a) 2cp b) 1 cp c) 1cp d)11cp

Compulsory module: X Compulsory optional module:

Elective module:

Course format:

a) workshop, colloquium b) individual agreements/ supervision c) workshop, colloquium d) individual agreements/ supervision

Class size:

a) 8 groups of 12 students each b) 1:1 (student – examiner / supervisor) c) 4 groups of 25 students each d) 1:1 (student – examiner / supervisor)


By writing the Bachelor thesis the students prove that they are able to deal with a subject of Social Work using academic standards. Therefore this module aims at conducting the students in the process of finding a topic for their Bachelor thesis, providing orientation with regard to research methods to help them acquire the relevant knowledge and enabling the students to write a thesis with academic orientation.

Contents:

Subject research, scope of subject and specification, Development of issues and research hypotheses, Development of a research design, Exposé, Knowledge management / literature research / selection of literature, Thesis structures design and outline, Formal principles (cover, formatting, layout), Style criteria of academic writing, academic language, Forms of argumentation, Integration of an empirical research project, as the case may be, Data acquisition and data analysis / data collection, Forms of documentation, Presentation of data, processes and results, Interpretation of results, Revision and final editing of Bachelor thesis.



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Types of exam:

Bachelor thesis (final thesis) / exam performance


Module exam passed

Weight for final grade: Module exam result (exam performance) is weighted three-fold, ¼ of it being counted in final grade.


Annual


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Krieger

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