Rehabilitation Pedagogics (Bachelor of Arts, B.A.)
The Rehabilitation Pedagogics study programme aims to provide students with solid, specialised knowledge of extracurricular rehabilitation. Topics covered include early intervention, professional integration, and working with chronically ill and elderly individuals. The programme also covers diagnostics, support planning, and the legal foundations of the rehabilitation system.
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At a glance
Course structure and content
Students should acquire solid, broad and differentiated knowledge of the following key working areas of extracurricular rehabilitation:
- Early childhood education, rehabilitation for children and young people;
- occupational rehabilitation and educational work in inpatient and outpatient medical and psychosocial rehabilitation for those with chronic illnesses and disabilities, in prevention and health promotion, and in geriatric rehabilitation;
- educational work in the traditional fields of inpatient, partially inpatient and outpatient help for the disabled;
- educational work and integration promotion in inter-cultural working areas.
Students gain the fundamental skills to make rehabilitation education decisions in the fields of rehabilitation diagnosis, promotion planning and rehabilitation planning, as well as selected decision-making skills in the field of rehabilitation- pedagogical intervention.
Students know the rehabilitation system, including its legal basis, and are thus able to classify and assess rehabilitation education activities in the interplay between everyday social life, client needs and institutional general conditions.
Students are entrusted with educational science perspectives and theoretical and ethical basic concepts of special education (e.g. self-determination, participation, empowerment, assistance, diversity, disability studies etc.), and can transfer them to practical professional problems.
Students gain a solid research methodology tool set, which they can use to assess and critically evaluate the results of current international rehabilitation science research and their importance for practice-related issues, as well as to undertake smaller practice-related investigations.
Mono-Bachelor's programme (180 CP)
Mandatory modules (130 CP)
| Module | Title | Size |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Introductory phase | 10 CP |
| 02 | Introduction to the Rehabilitation Pedagogy subject areas and to cross-section disciplines | 5 CP |
| 03 | Fundamentals of Medicine | 5 CP |
| 04 | Psychological Fundamentals of Rehabilitation | 10 CP |
| 05 | Psychodiagnostic and Intervention | 10 CP |
| 06 | Sociological Fundamentals of Rehabilitation | 10 CP |
| 07 | Education Studies | 5 CP |
| 08 | Rehabilitation Pedagogy | 10 CP |
| 09 | Rehabilitation System | 10 CP |
| 10 | Research Methods | 10 CP |
| 11 | Law | 5 CP |
| 12 | Counselling | 5 CP |
| 13 | Professionalisation and practical experience | 20 CP |
| 17 | Bachelor’s thesis | 15 CP |
Mandatory elective modules (30 CP)
| Module | Title | Size |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | In-depth-module Rehabilitation Pedagogy subject area I | 10 CP |
| 15 | In-depth-module Rehabilitation Pedagogy subject area II | 10 CP |
| 16 | Support and securing of social participation | 10 CP |
The mandatory elective modules are mostly provided by the following Rehabilitation Pedagogy subject areas:
- Pedagogy for language and communication impairments
- Pedagogy with learning Impairments
- Pedagogy for psychosocial disorders
- Pedagogy for visual impairments
- Pedagogy for impairments in physical-motor development
- Pedagogy for mental disabilities
- Sign language and Audio Pedagogy
Furthermore, courses in General Rehabilitation Pedagogy, Sociology of Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Psychology and Rehabilitation Technology are also offered.
General elective modules (20 CP)
In addition to specialised study, students acquire subject-specific, non-specialist and interdisciplinary key qualifications of 20 CP. Modules can be freely chosen from the designated module catalogues of other subjects or central institutions.
Special features
Alongside Cologne and Dortmund, the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin offers comprehensive training in special education for the extracurricular rehabilitation sector, from early support to occupational integration to supporting chronically ill, disabled and elderly people.
The Department of Rehabilitation Sciences can look back at a long and successful tradition of research and training of special educators, and also offers all disciplines of education for the disabled. It offers students a wide range of choices, both in the breadth of the subject and for specialisation.
As students, you should be excited about and committed to working with disabled and ill individuals, have excellent communication skills and be interested in interdisciplinary scientific work.
Subject-specific admission and enrolment rules
Career opportunities & prospects
At Humboldt-Universität, you can apply for the Master's programme in Rehabilitation Pedagogy.
Find out more in the overview of HU study programmes or via the database Hochschulkompass nationwide.
The degree programme aims to impart solid, broad, and—at the same time—differentiated knowledge regarding the following central fields of practice within non-school-based rehabilitation:
Early intervention; rehabilitation for children and adolescents; vocational rehabilitation; educational work within inpatient and outpatient medical and psychosocial rehabilitation for the chronically ill and persons with disabilities; prevention and health promotion; geriatric rehabilitation; educational work within traditional fields of inpatient, semi-inpatient, and outpatient disability services; and educational work and integration support within intercultural fields of practice.
More information on career prospects and alternatives can be found in the Berufenet database.
Study subject counselling and recognition of credits
Questions about the degree programme, as well as the classification and recognition of studies and qualifications, are answered by Dr. Ulrike Fickler-Stang, who is available by telephone at +49 30 209-66740 or by email.
Contact information for the faculty
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
Institutsgebäude, Georgenstraße 36, 10117 Berlin