Program Overview

Introduction to the Psychology Program

The Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies offers a Bachelor's degree program in Psychology, which is 100% weighted. This program prepares students to begin a career as a psychologist or psychotherapist. The degree program initially equips students with basic knowledge of the various branches and applied fields within the broad spectrum of psychology.

Program Details

• Degree: Bachelor of Science
• Type of program: Undergraduate
• Start of program: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: Primarily German, with some content in English
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Subjects with admission restriction in the scope of the dialogue-oriented services procedure
• Part-time option: Yes
• Enables licensure: Yes

Course Content

The polyvalent Bachelor’s degree program in psychology prepares students to begin a career as a psychologist or psychotherapist. The degree program initially equips students with basic knowledge of the various branches and applied fields which fall within the broad spectrum of psychology. In addition, students gain understanding of psychological diagnostics, as well as in-depth knowledge of methods used in psychological research. By combining elective course components, students are able to develop their own areas of specialism, or they may choose to select course components from across the various branches of psychology.

Course Structure

The first two thirds of the course are mainly dedicated to learning about all relevant fundamental and application areas as well as acquiring substantiated research methods:

• General introduction (introduction to psychology and epistemology, trial research)
• Basic techniques of the academic program (critical reading of specialist literature, own literature research)
• Knowledge of scientific methods (experiment design, empirical project seminars, statistics, introduction to computer-based data analysis)
• Knowledge of traditional fundamental areas (general psychology, differential psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, biological psychology)
• Knowledge of relevant areas of application (pedagogical psychology, health and prevention, clinical psychology, occupational and organisational psychology)
• Basic skills in psychological diagnostics and testing theory

In the final third of the course, students are able to select areas which they will study in more depth, thereby building on the basic knowledge and understanding of applied areas gained previously. Students might select, for example, from the following compulsory modules:

• Application-orientated specialisation
  • Educational psychology
  • Clinical psychology and psychotherapy
  • Health and prevention
  • Workplace and organisational psychology
• Interdisciplinary competencies
  • Academic fundamentals
  • Basics of psychotherapeutic practice
• Practical work experience

Bachelor's Thesis

In the Bachelor's thesis, students demonstrate that they are able to work independently to develop a research question within the field of psychology, and address this using academic methods.

Additional Degrees

The university also offers additional degrees, including a Bachelor 25% and Master's programs. However, detailed information about these programs is not provided in the given context.