Pursuant to consolidation Act 778 of August 7, 2019 on Universities (the University Act), the following is established.
The programme also follows the Examination Policies and Procedures for Aalborg University.
The Master’s programme is organised in accordance with the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Order no. 20 of January 9, 2020 on Bachelor’s and Master’s Programmes at Universities (the Ministerial Order of the Study Programmes) and Ministerial Order no. 22 of January 9, 2020 on University Examinations (the Examination Order). Further reference is made to Ministerial Order no. 153 of February 26, 2020 (the Admission Order) and Ministerial Order no. 114 of February 3, 2015 (the Grading Scale Order).
The programme is offered in Aalborg.
The Master’s programme falls under Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aalborg University.
The Master’s programme falls under Study Board of MSc in Social Work.
The Master’s programme is associated with the external examiners corps on Master's degree in Social Work.
Admission to the MA in Advanced Development in Social Work requires a bachelor degree in social work or closely related subjects.
Students with another bachelor degree can, upon application to the consortium board, obtain access on the basis of a concrete academic assessment, insofar as the applicant is deemed to have comparable academic qualifications. The consortium board may demand that applicants pass supplementary tests prior to the commencement of study. Work experience is highly weighted
Master's programme in Advanced Development in Social Work
The Master’s programme entitles the graduate to the English designation MA in Advanced Development in Social Work (Joint Degree)
Nordic Master in Social Work and Welfare (NOSWEL) (specialization)
The Master's programme entitles the graduate to theThe English designation is Nordic MA i Social Work and Welfare (Joint Degree).
The MA in Advanced Development in Social Work is a 2-year research-based full-time programme. The programme is set to 120 ECTS credits.
The AAU modules are set to 30 ECTS credits.
The Study Board can approve that passed programme elements from other educational programmes at the same level replaces programme elements within this programme (credit transfer).
Furthermore, the Study Board can, upon application, approve that parts of this programme is completed at another university or a further education institution in Denmark or abroad (pre-approval of credit transfer).
The Study Board’s decisions regarding credit transfer are based on an academic assessment.
The Study Board’s possibilities to grant exemption, including exemption to further examination attempts and special examination conditions, are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures published at this website: https://www.studieservice.aau.dk/regler-vejledninger
The rules for examinations are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures published at this website: https://www.studieservice.aau.dk/regler-vejledninger
In the assessment of all written work, regardless of the language it is written in, weight is also given to the student's formulation and spelling ability, in addition to the academic content. Orthographic and grammatical correctness as well as stylistic proficiency are taken as a basis for the evaluation of language performance. Language performance must always be included as an independent dimension of the total evaluation. However, no examination can be assessed as ‘Pass’ on the basis of good language performance alone; similarly, an examination normally cannot be assessed as ‘Fail’ on the basis of poor language performance alone.
The Study Board can grant exemption from this in special cases (e.g., dyslexia or a native language other than Danish).
The Master’s Thesis must include an English summary. If the project is written in English, the summary can be in Danish. The summary is included in the evaluation of the project as a whole.
Students are required to be able to read academic texts in English.
The following competence profile will appear on the diploma:
A Candidatus graduate has the following competency profile:
A Candidatus graduate has competencies that have been acquired via a course of study that has taken place in a research environment.
A Candidatus graduate is qualified for employment on the labour market based on his or her academic discipline as well as for further research (PhD programmes). A Candidatus graduate has, compared to a Bachelor, developed his or her academic knowledge and independence so as to be able to apply scientific theory and method on an independent basis within both an academic and a professional context.
The aim of the programme
The Master's programme in Advanced Development in Social Work (ADVANCES) is designed to give social workers outstanding levels of practice skills so that they can confidently respond to the vulnerabilities and uncertainties facing societies across the world.
Competence profile/learning outcomes
The learning outcomes reflect the competence levels for second-cycle (Master) programmes of the Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area (Dublin Descriptors.
Knowledge and cognitive skills
Professional and key skills
The MA is a closed programme, which extends the knowledge and insight that students have acquired in the bachelor programme.
The AAU semester consists of three modules:
Module 4: Research Methodology and Ethics (10 ECTS)
Module 5: Power relations and actor perspectives (10 ECTS)
Module 6: Field Study and Problem Based Approaches in social work (10 ECTS)
Overall, the MA in Advanced Development in Social Work consists of 13 modules, to read more about the modules please go to www.socialworkadvances.aau.dk
A module is a subject element or a group of subject elements designed to provide students with a totality of academic qualifications. The programme is designed in a manner that guarantees academic progression and coherence.
Offered as:
1-professional | ||||||
Study programme: Advanced Development i Social Work | ||||||
Module name | Course type | ECTS | Applied grading scale | Evaluation method | Assessment method | Language |
1 Semester
University of Lincoln
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2 Semester
Aalborg University
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Research Methodology and Ethics | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam | English |
Power Relations and Actor Perspectives | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
Field Study and Problem Based Approaches in Social Work | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
3 Semester
University of Lisbon
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4 Semester
Master Thesis - choose between 5 universities
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Offered as:
1-professional | |||||
Study programme: Summer School | |||||
Module name | Course type | ECTS | Applied grading scale | Evaluation method | Assessment method |
2-3 Semester
alternating between Warsaw and Paris Nanterre
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Offered as:
1-professional | ||||||
Study programme: Specialization - Noswel | ||||||
Module name | Course type | ECTS | Applied grading scale | Evaluation method | Assessment method | Language |
1 Semester
University of Stavanger
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2 Semester
University of Stavanger
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3 Semester
Students can only choose 3. semester, AAU, Noswel, if students have completed 1. and. 2. semester at Stavanger University, Norway
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Practice Research and Service User Perspectives | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
Problem Based Learning | Project | 15 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
Field Study | Course | 5 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Oral exam | English |
4 Semester
Students can only choose 4. semester, AAU, Noswel, if students have completed 1. and. 2. semester at Stavanger University, Norway
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Master's Thesis | Project | 30 | 7-point grading scale | External examination | Master's thesis/final project | English |
Rules concerning written assignments, including the master’s thesis project and its scope
Rules for examinations
Additional information
The curriculum is approved by the dean and enters into force as of September 1, 2020.
The Study Board does not offer teaching after the previous curriculum from 2013 after the summer examination 2021.
The Study Board will offer examinations after the previous curriculum, if there are students who have used examination attempts in a module without passing. The number of examination attempts follows the rules in the Examination Order.
The Vice-dean han on December 1, 2020, approved to change the type of assessment in the module "Practice Research and Service User Perspektives” to 7-point-scale valid as of autumn 2020.