Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master of Arts (M.A.) in Catholic Welfare Studies and Ethics is an interdisciplinary theological discipline that brings students and teachers from a wide range of scientific disciplines into an interdisciplinary dialogue in teaching and research. Under the heading of ethics, students discuss the question of balancing what is technically feasible with what is humanly meaningful, the moral.

Program Description

The program serves to acquire specific knowledge and competences in the fields of theology and related disciplines. Students acquire and improve caritas scientific and ethical competences (both individual and social ethics) as well as communicative skills. In addition, the interdisciplinarily organized program offers knowledge and competences as to theory and practice of social work as well as law and management in the social field. It enables students to do research in this field empirically as well as conceptionally in this field on theological and interdisciplinary bases.

Admission Requirements

To successfully study Caritas Science and Ethics at the University of Freiburg, students should:

• Have a bachelor's degree in theology, religious studies, social sciences, humanities, law, economics, or a comparable field of study.
• Want to deal with values, norms, and morals.
• Be able to critically question facts and conflicts of the modern world.
• Enjoy argumentation, communication, and interdisciplinary exchange.

Fast Facts

• Language of instruction: German, if necessary English
• Academic calendar: Winter Semester
• Standard Period of Study: 4 semesters required for the full degree program
• Scope of services: 120 ECTS-Points for the full degree program
• Admission: With special prerequisites for admission
• Application period:
  • First semester: 1 June - 15 September
  • Higher semesters:
    • Winter Semester: 1 June - 30 September
    • Summer Semester: 1 December - 31 March

Academic Content

The Master Program Caritas Science and Ethics is research-oriented and consecutive. Caritas Science does theological and interdisciplinary research in and reflects on theory and practice of Caritas and other organizations of public, free, and private social welfare. Christian Social Ethics offers the framework of theories of justice for basic and situational questions of social ethics.

Statutes

The legal basis for application and admission, examination regulations, includes:

• Zulassungs- und Immatrikulationsordnung (ZImmO)
• Zulassungsordnung M.A. Caritaswissenschaft und Ethik
• Studien- und Prüfungsordnung M.A. Caritaswissenschaft und Ethik
• Studien- und Prüfungsordnung M.A. Caritaswissenschaft und Christliche Gesellschaftslehre
• Satzung über ergänzende Regelungen zum Zulassungs- und Prüfungsrecht

Faculty Affiliation

The program is affiliated with the Faculty of Theology.