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English Courses

 

If there are any questions about the courses listed below you can always ask Christoph Bördlein for advice.

modulenumber name description bachelor/master SWS / CP
3.2 Basic Strategies I: Behavioral Assessment Introduction to behavior analysis:

Defining behavior

Observing and recording behavior

Graphing behavior and measuring change
BSA 3 semester working-hours
5CP
3.3 Basic Strategies II: Behavior Modification Introduction to Behavior Modification:

Stimulus control techniques, reinforcer assessment, shaping, chaining, token economies, behavioral contracts, behavioral relaxation, etc.
BSA 3 semester working-hours
5 CP
1.2 Social Work and Migration: Attitudes and Approaches Looks at social work with emphasis on its historical becoming and socio-cultural milieu
Decolonization of social work as point of depature in global social work endeavors
elaborates knowledge, analytical capacity and attitude-based competences in order to deal with diversity and entangled exclusionary processes in a power-sensitive way

MRM
(open for undergraduates)
4 semester working-hours
5 CP
5.2 Social Work with Refugees and Migrants in Areas of Origin Confrontation with (often challenging) situations on site in a selected region of origin, transit or destination

to widen students understanding of the different phases (including processes, stakeholders and actors) of (forced) migration, whilst creating critical questions and debate about attitude and ethical standards of social work, as well as perceptions of oneself and of others
MRM

(open for undergraduates)

(only when summer school is in Germany, ask

Christoph Bördlein
about it)
4 semester working - hours
5 CP
AWPFs - Elective, voluntary subjects in various areas: link to the subjects BSA -

modulenumber name description bachelor/master SWS / CP
3.2    
Basic Strategies I: Behavioral   Assessment   
Introduction to behavior analysis:
   
Defining behavior
   
Observing and recording behavior
   
Graphing behavior and measuring change   
BSA 3 semester working-hours
5 CP
3.3 Basic Strategies II: Behavior Modification Introduction to Behavior Modification:

Stimulus control techniques, reinforcer assessment, shaping, chaining, token economies, behavioral contracts, behavioral relaxation, etc.

BSA 3 semester working-hours
5 CP
3.4 Self-Modification The students perform a project in self-modification by using their knowledge and skills from the tutorials “Basic Strategies of Behavior Modification” Parts I and II. BSA 1 semester working-hour
0 CP (only part of module)
3.5 Communication methods Communications skills, practical exercises on relationship building, asking questions, active listening, giving feedback, nonverbal communication, importance of silence; basics in intercultural communication skills developed. Methods: theoretical inputs, practical exercises, peer-learning, reflection and role-play



BSA 4 semester working-hours
5 CP
3.8 Newspaper Theater The course integrates tools from Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), with special focus on Newspaper Theater and combined this Social Presencing Theatre (SPT) to offer social work students a way to conduct awareness-based action research. In the course, students engage in a theatrical reading of global events and practice SPT to investigate lived experience through mindful awareness. BSA 3 semester working-hours
5 CP
3.8 Theater of Witness The course is an introduction to Theater of witness, which is a form of testimonial performance performed by people sharing their personal and collective stories of suffering, transformation and peace. Developed more than thirty years ago by Teya Sepinuck, the work brings people together across divides of difference to bear witness to each other’s life experiences. Performers who have survived marginalization, oppression, and the complexity of the human experience, address some of society’s most challenging issues from a multiplicity of perspectives. BSA 3 semester working-hours
5 CP
7.2 Scientific elective module Students can scientifically use individual interests and gifts by selecting them from a catalogue of subject areas. Like this, different possibilities of dealing with various social problems, tasks, methods, action concepts and working environment are introduced. The goal is to make the practical relevance visible in small groups. BSA 3 semester working-hours
5 CP
- Introduction to the German Legal System This course is designed for international students and provides a comprehensive introduction to the German Legal System and to selected core areas of German Substantial Law (Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law)

BSA 3 semester working-hours
5 CP
7.3 Social Work in the Migration Society - BSA 1 semester working-hour
0 CP (only part of module)
5.2
Social Work with Refugees and Migrants in Areas of Origin
Confrontation with (often challenging) situations on site in a selected region of origin, transit or destination

to widen students understanding of the different phases (including processes, stakeholders and actors) of (forced) migration, whilst creating critical questions and debate about attitude and ethical standards of social work, as well as perceptions of oneself and of others

MRM
(open for undergraduates)
(only when summer school is in Germany, ask Christoph Bördlein about it)
4 semester working-hours
5 CP
AWPFs - Elective, voluntary subjects in various areas: link to the subjects    BSA -

 

BSA = Bachelor Social Work

MRM = Master International Social Work with Refugees and Migrants

 

 

Additional Information:

Additional, external courses can be booked via Social Work Vircamp. More information can be found here.