Social Work Compact

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University Catholic University of Applied Sciences North-Rhine Westphalia
Degree Bachelor's

Degree Bachelor of Arts, B.A.
Study Type Undergraduate
Mode of admission without admission restriction
Deadline for Beginning Students 01.12.2025 — 31.05.2026
Standard period of study (amount) 8 semesters
Study Mode (elucidation) part time
Location (main / branches campus) Aachen
Admission semester winter semester
Subject

Das Social Work gehört zum Studienbereiche Social Work, Curative Pedagogy der Fächergruppe Humanities and Social Sciences.
Weitere Informationen zum Studienbereich Social Work, Curative Pedagogy.
Weitere Informationen zur Fächergruppe Humanities and Social Sciences.
Social Work
Areas of Concentration Areas of action (educational and cultural work, child, youth and family assistance, poverty and exclusion, health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation), Research-based analysis of social work, Theories, Concepts and Methods of Social Work, Transdisciplinary analyses of current societal challenges and developments

Field of study
- Main instruction language German
- Digital teaching and learning units Blended Learning
- Annotation of the Higher Education Institution The compact degree course facilitates studying social work for people with family or care responsibilities or those who are working. Because: The face-to-face courses only take place on Fridays and Saturdays. The increased proportion of self-study is supported by partly asynchronous online teaching.
  The study programme imparts knowledge from social work, but also from disciplines that are important for social work. Practice-oriented teaching on a scientific basis provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to act responsibly and professionally.
  
  Other bachelor's study options:
  - Social Work (full-time study in person; in Aachen, Cologne, Münster, Paderborn)
  - Dual social work, degree programme with vocational and academic elements (Aachen, Cologne, Münster, Paderborn)
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Access and Admission Requirements
- Mode of admission without admission restriction
- Admission semester winter semester
- Pre-study work placement (3 months) in the field of social work, social education or special needs education.
  
  The pre-study work placement is deemed to have been completed when you have acquired the qualification for the course of study by means of the certificate of entrance qualification for studies at a technical school for social work/special education. The fulfilment of the required pre-study work placement must be credibly assured by the application deadline. The actual completion of the programme is possible until the beginning of the semester (September 1st).
  more information regarding admission requirements
Programme Dates and Deadlines
- Wintersemester 2025/2026
- - Lecture period
  - 22.09.2025 — 06.02.2026
  - Deadlines for Germans and foreigners with German university entrance qualifications
    Beginning Students
    
    01.12.2025 — 31.05.2026
    
    Advanced Semester
    
    01.12.2025 — 31.05.2026
  - Deadlines for International Students from the European Union
    Bewerbungsfrist EU-Ausländer 01.12.2025 — 31.05.2026
  - Deadlines for International Students from Countries that are not EU Members
    Bewerbungsfrist Nicht-EU-Ausländer 01.12.2025 — 31.05.2026
Contact / contact person
- International Students and applicants are kindly requested to contact the International Office:
- International Office
- Street address Wörthstraße 10, 50668 Köln
- international(at)katho-nrw.de
- Internetpage of the institution
- Contact / contact person for this program
- basakompakt.ac(at)katho-nrw.de
- Studienberatung
- Street address Robert-Schuman-Str. 25, 52066 Aachen
- studienbuero.aachen(at)katho-nrw.de
- Internetpage of the institution
- Contact Frau Anna Zeien
- Function Studienberatung
- Responsibility Aachen (Sozialwesen)
- Phone 0241 60003-8091
- a.zeien(at)katho-nrw.de
- Internet page

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