Courses taught entirely in English.Study content
The accredited and state-recognized Master's degree program in Social Work (M.A.) offers students a modern and stimulating learning environment designed by proven academics and practitioners. In addition to the theoretical modules of the academic disciplines, the lecturers provide precise and well-founded information on how research methods are used to determine needs and what support is appropriate for the various forms of disadvantage and stress in the many areas of social work.
As a student of the Master's program in Social Work, you will be able to analyze problems, conflicts, and crises in a self-confident and self-conscious way and to develop sustainable solutions for individuals, institutions, or the social space of an urban area. You will learn to plan specific assistance and to know how this is financed, implemented, and finally evaluated. You will be able to analyze and further develop complex issues with suitable research designs. You will have a comprehensive and well-founded knowledge base, identify mental disorders in children, adolescents, and adults, and derive appropriate interventions from them.
Program content
One focus of the degree program is on providing in-depth knowledge in the areas of psychosocial counseling and developmental support as well as target group-specific intervention in the context of social psychiatric and social medical care. In particular you learn systemic and solution-oriented approaches and counseling methods, which qualify you for work in counseling centers, but are also fundamental for your communication skills as a social manager. In addition to systemic competences, students acquire explicit knowledge of psychodynamic-interactional pedagogy.
With the modern concept of blended learning, a sensible mix of face-to-face study in classrooms, virtual teaching, and self-study, you can study at Campus Berlin as well as at your personal favorite place of learning. Because our standard of quality is that a Social Work degree program must have both. Without attendance, students cannot be professionally supervised, and content cannot be taught in a methodologically diverse way. Group dialogue and self-confident exercises must be experienced and reflected on campus. This is the only way to learn to work with people for people. Social skills must be taught socially in a natural social environment.
However, according to today's standards of teaching, quality also means integrating virtual teaching formats in a didactically meaningful way into your studies. At MSB, you study according to a reliable, clearly structured timetable with flexible components of face-to-face teaching in classrooms, online teaching, and guided self-study. Each teaching format is interrelated and follows a stringent common thread with comprehensible learning objectives. At MSB, virtual learning means developing your own learning style under guidance and training it as a learning strategy in order to achieve a goal-oriented conclusion.
For a good theory-practice transfer, we encourage you to work in a social organization during your studies. Although you are a full-time student, you only have to study three days a week. In addition, during the so-called attendance week, you only visit campus once a month. For the remaining three weeks of the month, you study virtually at your favorite learning location. In short: you have the best opportunities to work alongside your studies and to choose your learning locations individually.
