Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

Research Trip

Degree programme Social Work
Subject area Social Work & Health
Type of degree Master
Part-time
Summer Semester 2025
Course unit title Research Trip
Course unit code 058425040101
Language of instruction English
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) Compulsory
Teaching hours per week 2
Year of study 2025
Level of the course / module according to the curriculum
Number of ECTS credits allocated 3
Name of lecturer(s) Viktoria REUSCHEL, Uta SKOWRANEK
Requirements and Prerequisites

Prerequisites and accompanying conditions Courses from the previous semesters of modules 1, 2, 3 or 4

Course content

The final excursion of the Master's degree course in Social Work offers the opportunity to get to know other social professional organizations and social systems at a regionally, nationally or internationally selected location and to engage in a professional exchange. The focus is on clinical social work and social space work, whereby one specialization can be examined more intensively.

  • the basic competence objectives in modules 2, 3 and 4 are brought together in an exemplary manner.
  • the aim is to differentiate and critically reflect on knowledge management and competence development as well as the expansion of understanding in societal and socio-political developments in the transnational field.
  • the aim of the research trip is to recognize that socio-political and societal decisions can be influenced by professionally sound results.
Learning outcomes

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to

  • name, differentiate and categorize the transfer between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation in socio-political terms
  • reflect on the knowledge acquired during their studies in relation to social practice in a living environment to be researched
  • systematically analyse how social profit organizations, social and socio-political developments interact and understand, recognize and name them
  • understand the importance of scientifically based lines of
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
  • Field trip to a regionally, nationally or internationally selected location with a visit to relevant social profit organizations or NGOs
  • Keynote speeches
Assessment methods and criteria
  • Immanent (or final if unable to attend) examination character
  • responsibility for the content of individual key topics
  • keynote speeches on site
  • reports afterwards
  • attendance/participation

 

Comment
  • The costs for the research trip are to be borne individually by the students.
  • a preliminary discussion will take place.
  • compulsory attendance: instead of participating in the field trip, a seminar paper of at least 30,000 - 40,000 characters including spaces (excluding the characters of the cover sheet, table of contents, tables and other lists in the appendix) must be prepared as a substitute.
Recommended or required reading

Gemeinnützige Organisationen in der Praxis die häufigsten Irrtümer von Vereinen und anderen NPOs 2. Auflage). (2019). dbv-Verlag.

Herbe, D., & Palsherm, I. (2023). Das neue Bürgergeld: Die rechtlichen Neuregelungen (1. Auflage). Nomos.

Stranzinger, T., Kuhn, C., Kovacs, K., & Hofer, C. (2017). Non-Profit-Organisationen: Rechtsformen, Rechnungslegung & Steuern, Finanzberichterstattung, Aufsicht & Prüfung, Spendenfinanzierung. MANZ´sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung.

Werner, G. W. (2018). Einkommen für alle: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen - die Zeit ist reif (1. Auflage der überarbeiteten, aktualisierten und erweiterten Neuausgabe). Kiepenheuer & Witsch.

Socialplatform (2020): Webseite der socialplatform. Online im Internet: https://www.socialplatform.org/.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Field Trip