Program Overview

Program Overview

The Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences offers a Bachelor's degree program in Sociology, which is a 100% undergraduate program. Sociology is the science of social action in specific consideration of institutional conditionalities and effects, and it is in equal parts a theory-driven as well as an empirical discipline.

Facts and Formalities

• Degree: Bachelor of Arts
• Type of program: Undergraduate
• Start of program: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German and English
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Subjects with admission restriction in the scope of the dialogue-oriented services procedure
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.

Course Content

The Bachelor’s degree program in Sociology provides students with a sound theoretical and empirical grounding in Sociology. Students will gain knowledge of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the subject, with due reference being made to the requirements of the job market and the changes taking place within it. Students will learn to work to academic standards and to critically analyze social conditions and the measures taken by governmental and non-governmental institutions to improve them.

Course Structure

The Bachelor’s degree program is modular and comprises subject-specific modules and modules in cross-disciplinary skills. The modules consist of mandatory courses in sociology, in the cross-disciplinary elective module as well as courses in the compulsory elective area.

Additional Degrees

• Bachelor 25%
• Master, consecutive