- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Course location
- Berlin
- In cooperation with
- • Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
• Linnaeus University, Växjo-Kalmar, Sweden
• University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- Courses are only held in English. Additionally, a beginner's German language course is offered free of charge.
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Mode of study
- Less than 50% online
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Application deadline
- The application period starts on 15 October and ends on 1 March (for admission decisions by April).
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- 2,640 EUR
- Additional information on tuition fees
- Upon an applicant's successful admission, a fee of 300 EUR is due. The tuition fee for the first to the third semester is 2,640 EUR for each semester. Costs for the fourth semester (Human Rights Praxis Project and Master’s Thesis) amount to 1,250 EUR. However, should the Master’s thesis be postponed to the fifth semester, an extra 300 EUR will be charged for this final semester.
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The Master of Arts in Social Work as a Human Rights Profession (MA-SWHR) is a research-oriented, partially internet-based programme, combining the field of social work with human rights issues. Social work and human rights are frequently encountered when working with vulnerable groups such as children or migrants, or when working on issues relating to the right to health, the social problem of poverty, social exclusion, gender discrimination, or the problem of racism. The main aim of the MA-SWHR is the translation of the often very abstract and appellative human rights discourse into the theory and practice of social work. This objective is strongly linked to the development of a general professional self-conception based on the "triple mandate of social work", meaning that the universally known "double mandate of social work" on behalf of the addressees and the society/providers is complemented by a third mandate on behalf of the profession: this consists of science-based theories of action and intervention as well as the principles of the profession's code of ethics.