Social Work: Local Organization of Social Participation (M.A.)

What youth education offerings are needed in a particular district? What needs do young people have there and how should these become the basis of practice development on-site? How can we utilize the variety of living environments in the community to support personal development and peaceful coexistence? Is health promotion merely an individual goal or can it also be a feature of urban development? What incites people to do something for others and for living conditions in their district of community – and how can a culture of community be promoted by Social Work?

The Master degree program Social Work: Local Organization of Social Participation pursues these questions among others and seeks to qualify students for needs-based organization of communal spaces. With this focus, graduates should be enabled to think and act from an inquisitive, plan-oriented, conceptual, strategic, and political standpoint in order to support the gradual achievement of an overall communal strategy of social participation in various fields (e.g. neighborhood management, social planning, educational bureaus, offices for family matters, migration service, etc.).