Program Overview

Program Overview

The Bachelor’s degree programme in Gerontology, Health, and Care, with a focus of 25%, applies multidisciplinary approaches to dealing with general and specialised issues related to ageing and age as well as the ethically and professionally founded support of people in need of care.

Facts & Formalities

• Degree: Bachelor of Arts
• Type of programme: Undergraduate
• Start of programme: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Subjects with no admission restrictions
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.
• Part-time option: Yes

Course Content

The Bachelor’s degree programme in Gerontology, Health, and Care comprises the interdisciplinary, subject-specific, and methodological engagement with the disciplines of gerontology, nursing science, ethics and thanatology, geriatrics, and (geronto) psychiatry, as well as health promotion, prevention, and rehabilitation. In the context of legal, social, and health policy frameworks and developments, the Bachelor’s degree programme addresses the fields of gerontology and the professional areas of rehabilitative, curative, and palliative nursing, support, and care for individuals who require nursing care and those with chronic illnesses at different stages of life.

Course Structure

The academic programme is structured in modules, comprising study shares from two areas of theory and methodology, i.e., from gerontology, health, and care with a subject ratio of 25% and from a general studies major with a subject ratio of 75%.

• The Bachelor’s degree programme comprises a total of 180 credit points (CP), broken down as follows:
  • Field of study gerontology, health, and care with a subject ratio of 25%:
    • Theory and methodology, 35 CP
  • Major with a subject ratio of 75%:
    • Theory, methodology and specialised didactics of the major, 113 CP
    • Bachelor's thesis, 12 CP
    • Optional Courses, 20 CP

Additional Degrees

• Bachelor 67%
• Vocational Teaching (M.Ed.)