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- Duration: 6 semesters
- Degree Award: Bachelor of Arts
- Language: German/English
- admission free
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For the application procedure for the winter semester 2025/26, English proficiency is expected to be introduced as an admission requirement. This change is subject to approval by the Ministry of Science and Culture and publication in the Official Notices of the University of Oldenburg.
As soon as the admission regulations are published in the Official Notices of the University of Oldenburg, the change will take effect.
Social Studies - Dual-Subject Bachelor's Programme
Within the scope of the Dual-subject Bachelor, you can take Social Studies
- as a Major (90 ECTS credits) combined with a Minor
- as a primary or secondary dual subject (60 ECTS credits) or
- as a Minor (30 ECTS credits) combined with a Major
Social Studies can be studied either in connection with a non-teaching career goal or as a professional teaching qualification. If you want to become a teacher, you must follow the combinations of subjects for each teaching position.
It is not possible to combine Social Studies and Politics-Economics as a Dual-subject Bachelor.
Orientation and Goals
This bachelor's programme in Social Studies at the University of Oldenburg prepares students for careers in planing, administration, consulting, research, and teaching. Combining both theoretical and practical instruction, this programme helps students learn to critically and independently come to terms with developmental processes in state and society using methods from the social sciences. Possible career fields are dealt with as objects of social-scientific analysis as part of the degree course.