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Educational Science: Education and Lifelong Learning (major subject in a combined bachelor’s degree)

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“You never stop learning”—this saying rings truer today than ever before. Demographic change is transforming our society. New challenges, and not least the job market, demand continuous professional development. Lifelong learning thus becomes a central component of successful educational trajectories.
The major in Educational Science: Education and Learning Across the Lifespan addresses these developments. It provides you with fundamental knowledge about lifelong learning and out-of-school education. It strengthens your ability to conduct academic research and introduces you to methods of target group, needs, and social space analysis.
You will develop a broad understanding of basic concepts in educational science, such as the life course, individual learning trajectories, and the contextual conditions of learning processes. You will learn how educational programs for adult education and out-of-school contexts can be planned and implemented.

In the combined bachelor’s program, you can combine this major with minors in the social sciences or Business and Economics, for example, to shape your personal academic profile.

Prospects

The major “Educational Science: Education and Learning Throughout the Lifespan” generally qualifies you for careers in adult education, corporate human resources development, or cultural work, where learning and educational processes are initiated and supported:
• General, political, and academic adult education
• Vocational, corporate, and commercial continuing education
• Human resources and organizational development
• Extracurricular youth education and education for older adults
• Church- and union-based educational work, as well as work in social movements
• Education-focused subfields in sports, tourism, recreation, and environmental education
If you have a strong interest in academia, you can continue your studies directly with a master’s program after obtaining your degree. For particularly high-achieving students, the department also offers the opportunity to complete initial modules for a future master’s program as part of an excellence grant program while still in the bachelor’s program.
Your choice of major significantly shapes your professional profile. Combined with one or two minors, your career-related experience (e.g., internships, part-time jobs, volunteer work), and your personal skills, you can refine your profile and shape your own unique range of career opportunities.

• Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Admission requirements

  Education certificate: 
  General higher education entrance qualification, subject-related higher education entrance qualification, technical college entrance qualification or master’s certificate and comparable certificates from advanced professional training or professional qualifications 
  
  Knowledge and skills specific to the course to be demonstrated prior to admission:
  Foreign applicants must demonstrate knowledge of the German language. The German language test for university admission, level DSH-2, is required.
  
  Certifications of program-specific knowledge and skills to be submitted prior to admission:
  German skills: DSH 2
  
  Restricted admission: 
  For application or enrolment, it is necessary to select one major and depending on the combination one minor subjects in the online application
  
  Cannot be combined with:
  Educational Science (minor subject in a combined bachelor’s degree)

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  Technical questions about your application

  Uni-assist
  
  

  Content-related questions about the program

  Dr. Christine Hartig
  Wilhelm-Röpke-Str. 6B, Tower B, 2nd Floor
  Room: 02B04 (formerly 209)
  35039 Marburg

  Phone: +496421 28-24709
  Email: studienberatung21@staff.uni-marburg.de
  Office hours: see the website "Departmental Representative for Academic Advising"

  Formal questions about your application

   In case of formal questions about the application, please contact Bachelor's Coordination with your application number (if available) at application@uni-marburg.de

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  Applying with foreign university entrance qualification

  Application deadlines