BA Education at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

In the Bachelor’s degree program in Education, you will learn about the contexts and conditions of the educational process in the context of culture, organization and society and about how research is conducted into education. You will identify and reflect on the possibilities and limitations of educational practice with a view to developing learners‘ and professional educators‘ ability to speak, think, imagine utopias, and take criticism.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology  |  Duration: 6 semesters (3 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught; part-time option  |  Intake: Winter semester  |  Location: Erlangen, Bayern, Germany

What you will study

The degree program comprises compulsory modules and compulsory elective modules. Compulsory modules include Introduction to Education, Historical and Systematic Foundations of Education, Education Research, Fields of Work in Education, Introduction to Educational Fields as well as the internship and the Bachelor’s thesis. The compulsory elective modules are Educational Foundations and Educational Research.

Career pathways

General and vocational adult education as lecturers at state or private educational institutions (e.g. adult education centers, educational organizations).

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