Program Overview

Program Overview

The Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies offers a Bachelor's degree program in Gerontology, Health, and Care. This multidisciplinary program focuses on dealing with general and specialized issues related to ageing and age.

Facts & Formalities

• Degree: Bachelor of Arts
• Type of programme: Undergraduate
• Start of programme: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• 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 program 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 program 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.

Course Structure

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 CP in its examination rules and regulations.

Possible Combinations

• Philosophy / ethics
• Sports sciences
• Ev. theology
• German studies
• French / Romance studies
• Italian / Romance studies
• Spanish / Romance studies
• English studies

Program Breakdown

• Field of study gerontology, health, and care with a subject ratio of 67%
  • Theory and methodology, 95 CP
  • Bachelor's thesis, 6 CP
• General field of study with a subject ratio of 33%
  • Theory and methodology and specialized didactics of the general field of study, 59 CP
• Cross-disciplinary skills for a teaching degree
  • Introduction into education studies, 6 CP
  • Basic questions of education, 4 CP
  • Specialized didactics in the nursing profession, 2 CP
  • Vocational pedagogics, 8 CP

Practical Module

The Bachelor's degree program has an integrated practical module (module 10: Nursing activities, living environment and day structure), comprising six different specialized 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.

Career Prospects

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 program 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 specialized, specialized didactics, vocational-pedagogic, and education studies knowledge and skills for this purpose. The specialized didactics and vocational pedagogic courses consider the special requirements for training in vocational schools.