Study program Bachelor of Arts 67%
Students specialising in gerontology, health and care take a multidisciplinary approach to the general and specific issues of ageing and old age as well as the ethically and professionally based treatment of people in need of care.
Content of the study program
The Bachelor’s degree programme comprises the interdisciplinary subject-specific and method-related handling of the disciplines of gerontology, nursing sciences and care, ethics, and thanatology, geriatrics and (geronto) psychiatry, health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation, as well as the scientific reference disciplines. In light of legal and socio- or health-political framework conditions and developments, the Bachelor’s degree programme deals with the working fields of gerontology and the profession of rehabilitative, curative, and palliative nursing, support, and care for people who require nursing and people with chronic illnesses in different phases of life.
Bachelor graduates will be able to deal with the content of the working fields of gerontology and the profession of nursing for people in many different nursing situations while considering legal, social, and socio-political conditions and developments.
As a teaching degree, the Bachelor’s degree programme in gerontology, health, and care will ensure the basics of professionalism and quality for future teachers in vocational schools with the corresponding subject area. It conveys specialised, specialised didactics, vocational-pedagogic, and education studies knowledge and skills for this purpose. The specialised didactics and vocational pedagogic courses consider the special requirements for training in vocational schools.
Structure of the study program
The teacher-training Bachelor of Arts course of studies in gerontology, health, and care is structured in modules, compromising study shares from two areas of theory and methodology, i.e., from gerontology, health, and care with a subject ratio of 67% and from a general studies minor with a subject ratio of 33%.
The Bachelor’s degree program in gerontology, health, and care can be combined with any Bachelor’s degree program that intends for a corresponding offer of programs at a scope of 33 % or 59 ECTS in its examination rules and regulations.
The Bachelor’s degree program comprises a total of 180 credit points (ECTS), broken down as follows:
Field of study gerontology, health, and care with a subject ratio of 67%
- Theory and methodology, 95 ECTS
- Bachelor’s thesis, 6 ECTS
General field of study with a subject ratio of 33%
- Theory and methodology and specialised didactics of the general field of study, 59 ECTS
Cross-disciplinary skills for a teaching degree
- Introduction into education studies, 6 ECTS
- Basic questions of education, 4 ECTS
- Specialised didactics in the nursing profession, 2 ECTS
- Vocational pedagogics, 8 ECTS
The Bachelor’s degree program has an integrated practical module (module 10: Nursing activities, living environment and day structure), comprising six different specialised work placements in the nursing profession and targeted at acquiring skills in the areas of nursing activities, living environment and day structure for people in need of care.
The care areas for the specialised work placements to be performed corresponding to the variety of nursing and care of people with a chronic or acute need of care across all phases of life.