Berufliche und Betriebliche Bildung / Vocational Education and Training (B.Ed.)

Vocational and Industrial Education is a group of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes specialising in ‘Agricultural Economics’, ‘Nutrition and Home Economics’, ‘Electrical Engineering’ or ‘Metal Technology’ (the latter two in cooperation with the Technical University of Central Hesse). You choose a vocational specialisation as well as a general education subject from the range of subjects offered for teaching at grammar schools.

The degree programme complies with the provisions of the Hessian Teacher Training Act (HLbG) in order to ensure that Master’s graduates are treated on an equal footing with state-certified teachers (First State Examination).

Successful completion of a Master’s degree is recognised as equivalent to the First State Examination for Vocational Teacher Training, meaning that graduates may initially apply for the subsequent preparatory service and, upon its completion, (Second State Examination), they are qualified to teach at vocational schools and vocational grammar schools.

 

What will I learn?

These degree programmes provide you with a wide range of knowledge about vocational and in-company training and their areas of application, both in theory and in practice. These include subject-specific and systematic content, pedagogical, methodological and didactic skills, and professional competencies specific to the field, as well as interdisciplinary and communication skills.

Students must choose between two BA courses of studies according to their vocational subject.

The first BA programme is for students of	The second BA programme is for students of
Agriculture	Electrical Engineering*
Nutrition and Home Economics	Metal Engineering*
*The second programme is offered in cooperation with the Giessen University of Applied Sciences.

 

The programme contains

• Educational sciences: sociology, political science, psychology
  (Unlike in other teacher training programmes, educational science is not studied as a separate subject; educational science content is covered within the subjects of vocational, occupational and business education)
• one of the vocational specialisms listed above
• a general education subject
• vocational and business education
  (at the Institute of Educational Science, not as a vocational specialism)
• practical vocational and school-based studies

 

Educational sciences

Educational sciences deal with such areas as the realities of education (for example: familial education, school education) theory of learning, social environment of pupils, parents and teachers, the basics of democracy etc. These subjects are components of the course, because teachers should not only transmit the knowledge of their subject. They also have a role to play in upbringing. In order to fulfil this role, they must be able to identify and understand structures and processes which are pertinent to school and society, and explain these to individual pupils.

• Psychology
• Sociology
• Political Science

 

General Education Subjects

The subject is chosen from a sub-area of the range of subjects offered on the Teaching Qualification for Grammar Schools (L3) at Justus Liebig University Giessen. The following options are available:

• Biology
• Chemistry
• German
• English
• Protestant Religion 
• French
• History
• Computer Science
• Catholic Religion 
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Politics and Economics
• Spanish
• Physical Education

If you are interested in becoming a teacher at a vocational school, you can complete

• Vocational Education and Training (M.Ed.)

The Master’s is the equivalent to the first state teaching examination.

In addition, the Bachelor’s degree in Vocational Education and Training may provide access to the Master’s degree programme in Ecotrophology.

The Bachelor’s degree may lead on to either direct entry into professional life or continuing on from the Bachelor’s to a Master’s. Only on completion of a Master’s can one apply for the practical preparation stage of the qualification.

Possible career paths for Bachelor’s graduates include, for example,

• extracurricular and in-company training and further education,
• pre-vocational education and guidance, and
• for Master’s graduates, teaching at vocational schools.

In Hesse, there is the opportunity at other tertiary education institutions to work towards other types of degree in vocational teaching. Further information can be found under “Studying in Hesse” at the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts.

If you have completed one of the areas of focus whilst doing another degree, you may apply for recognition of this from the board of examiners. Usually, however, relevant aspects of the main subjects, the complementary subjects or vocational or business education are missing, and because these are all essential elements of the BA programme, students are often admitted into a higher semester. See information page on alternative entry.

Examination and study regulations

Special Regulations (with module descriptions and module plans)
General Regulations for Bachelor's and Master's programmes

Please note that only the German version of the regulation is official and legally binding. The English version is for informative purposes only.

 

Courses offered in the course catalogue

Electronical course catalogue (in German)

 

Study programme flyer

B.Ed. Berufliche und Betriebliche Bildung (PDF in German)

 

Accreditation

The programme has been accredited since 19 August 2006.

Are you still not entirely sure whether the course of study is the right one for you? We support you with a wide range of information, events and advisory services around your study orientation and choice. For example, experience real university atmosphere at our Hoch­schul­informations­tagen (HIT) and the Open Campus Day!

Study orientation

To help you get off to a good start with your studies, we warmly invite you to attend our orientation events. Here you will learn
everything you need to know about starting your studies:

• creating a course schedule,
• examination regulations and registration deadlines,
• campus areas and leisure activities,
• and much more.

At the same time, you will have the opportunity to get to know your future fellow students.

Start of studies