Social Work – Focus on Health Promotion and Prevention, B.A.
The Kempten University of Applied Sciences has developed two new courses in the field of Health and Generations that train urgently needed specialists, not least for the Allgäu health region. Keeping people healthy until old age is an individual and at the same time social task that does not only affect the older generation. It begins before birth and runs through life. Every phase of life and every area of life holds special opportunities and risks. Reducing the risks and seizing the opportunities is not the sole task of medicine and health professionals, but also a core area of social work. The promotion of health and the prevention of diseases are a cross-sectional task of social pedagogical action - both in the field of health-related social work and in fields that at first glance are not related to health. Social work also reaches people outside the health care structures, even when there is (still) no illness. This requires qualified socio-pedagogical staff who understand health as a cross-sectional task and have the appropriate skills. The Kempten University of Applied Sciences has therefore set up a bachelor's degree in social work with a focus on health promotion and prevention.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) |
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| Duration | 7 semesters, 210 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | Set by the university for international students — the amount is on the programme's official page |
| Semester contribution | €82 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →What you study
The course is structured in the same way as other courses in social work and is based on the requirements of the nationwide qualification framework for social work at the Social Work Department Day. The structure (module matrix) of the course is characterized by a systematic and step-by-step structure of module areas with related content. In addition, the semesters can be summarized in comprehensive study sections with a common content bracket:
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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With the completion of this course, a wide range of professional fields is offered. All areas are open that require a university degree in social work or social pedagogy. This also applies expressly to those occupational fields that are not clearly related to health. The abundance of professional fields in social work without obvious health relevance is so large that it can only be outlined here in brief. It includes the social services of local authorities, facilities and services for child and youth welfare, open child and youth work, youth vocational and youth court assistance, school career and school social counseling, work with people with disabilities, housing and job offers for people with disabilities, rehabilitation measures, Advisory services for the providers of free welfare, neighborhood and community work, probation assistance, adult education, leisure education, debt counseling, corporate social work, development cooperation and work with people with a migration background or with people on the run.
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In addition to this broad qualification, graduates are particularly qualified for all areas of health-related social work: In the municipal area, this applies, for example, to the social services of the health authorities, most of the areas of the social services (e.g. AIDS prevention, addiction prevention, pregnancy counseling, home supervision) , psychosocial care, job seekers, senior citizens' help), sports, school and youth welfare offices, all areas of senior citizens' work (e.g. senior citizens' representatives, overall concepts for senior citizens), working with self-help groups, the work of health conferences and health regions as well as the public health service, local health policy and health reporting. Significant areas of counseling and support services provided by independent or church charities are also clearly health-related.
A large field of activity within health-related social work is social work in the health system, which is the second largest employer for social workers after youth welfare. In general, this includes the clinical social services of all clinics and treatment facilities, in particular outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation clinics and health clinics, because - unlike in acute care clinics - apart from medical and therapeutic care, reintegration into professional and private life and dealing with (possibly new) chronic illness or disability is an essential part of the treatment. As specialized clinical services, early intervention and social pediatrics, addiction prevention, psychiatry, oncology, hospice work and palliative care, as well as geriatrics, require particularly strong support from social work.
In addition to the clinics, service providers for outpatient and inpatient care as well as facilities for people with disabilities represent a comprehensive field of activity, where they are used in particular in social care and advice, family and network work as well as in care and case management. There are also corresponding occupational fields in the education sector, such as health education in kindergartens and schools, at adult education centers or with independent educational institutions, as well as in teaching at (vocational) technical schools and vocational academies.
Finally, a broad and - not least against the background of the Prevention Act that came into force in 2015 - a growing range of primarily health-related occupational fields should be mentioned, for which the combination of health and social work expertise will be a sought-after qualification, for example in the prevention and health promotion area of health insurance companies and insurers, with service providers in the healthcare industry and in corporate healthcare. There is also a wide range of non-municipal authorities and offices, as well as foundations and associations with health and social relevance.
Cost of study
| Semester contribution | €82 |
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Requirements and application
| Previous education | In addition to the formal requirements, you should be particularly interested in the following things: Interactions between social and health issues Health issues in social work Health promotion and prevention Health-related, social activity close to people Health-social issues on a structural, social, political and scientific level |
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| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application via uni-assist until 15.07uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 4Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
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If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
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The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.