Health Education (BA)
Stuttgart, Germany
BA
DURATION
72 months
LANGUAGES
German
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 369 / per month *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* 72 months: €219/month | 48 months: €309/month | 36 months: €369/month
Key Summary
About: The Health Education (BA) prepares you to meet growing demand for qualified health educators amid changing demographics and expanding medical and social knowledge. You’ll develop skills in health promotion, prevention, patient education, training design and continuing education for healthcare professions, shaping workplace and community health.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as school principals in health and social services education, teachers delivering initial and continuing training, health coaches in fitness and wellness, and health educators in prevention, rehabilitation and workplace health management. You might also move into community health promotion, programme coordination, or patient education roles, regional policy and advocacy roles.
Due to constantly changing demographic conditions and the acquisition of new medical and social knowledge, the field of health education is experiencing rapid growth. This transformation creates increasing demands on professionals and requires a continuous process of academic training for healthcare professionals. At the same time, healthcare provision, as well as personal options for shaping one's own health, is becoming increasingly complex. This degree program equips you with the necessary skills to meet the growing demand for highly qualified health educators and the increasing professionalization within the healthcare sector. After graduation, you will be a key contact person in companies and organizations, responsible for practical training and continuing education in various healthcare professions. In this way, you will lay the foundation for a multifaceted career development. Do you want to help people take more responsibility for their health and advocate for a healthy lifestyle? Do you want to share your knowledge, raise awareness about healthy living, and demonstrate opportunities for shaping one's life? If this resonates with you, the Health Education degree program is the ideal choice. With this bachelor's degree, you can sharpen your profile and improve your existing experience in the social, educational, or medical fields – thus making an enormous contribution to the advancement of the health professions.
Semester 1
- Key qualifications for study and work
- Medical Fundamentals I
- Medical Fundamentals II
- Fundamentals of Healthcare
- Fundamentals of Applied Psychology
- profession
Semester 2
- Current studies and trends in health and care
- Health promotion, prevention, rehabilitation
- health Management
- Health and medical law
- Health policy and health economics
- Health psychology
Semester 3
- ethics
- Learning advice and learning coaching
- Fundamentals of Pedagogy
- General Didactics
- Planning of teaching and learning situations and curriculum development
- Testing and assessing, evaluation of teaching and learning situations
Semester 4
- Teamwork, change management and collaboration
- project management
- Health counselling, family and patient education
- Transcultural competence in the health and social services sector
- Methods of empirical research
- Human sciences
Semester 5
- Practice project
- Advanced Level 1
Semester 6
- Communication, advice and support
- bachelor thesis
- Advanced Level 2
Recommended knowledge:
- Math and statistics
- English language skills at level "CEFR-B2" (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
- Depending on the chosen specialization: Fundamentals of Social Work
During the preparatory course, missing prior knowledge can be acquired alongside the studies.
- School principal - You manage academies and schools in the health and social services sector and determine the focus of teaching in a health profession.
- Teacher - You impart your knowledge for healthcare professions using suitable learning tools in the form of seminars and courses in initial, advanced and continuing education.
- Health coach - As an academic professional in the field of fitness, wellness, sport and exercise, you support and advise people in making their lives healthier.
- Health educator - You provide support with your expertise in the medical and social fields, in health education, prevention and rehabilitation, in nursing, and in workplace health management.