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Health and Society: International Gender Studies Berlin – (M.Sc.)
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Master's Programmes
| Application Deadline: | contact with Programme Director | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 7,700 - | ||
| Location: | Berlin / Germany / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Public Health is the science and practice of population-based disease prevention, the prolonging of life, and the promotion of physical and psychological well-being.
(2) Health and Society: Gender and Diversity Studies is primarily concerned with the following issues:
* Conditions of health and causes of disease in countries examined as part of the program
* National and international strategies for dealing with global health problems
* Approaches to health promotion and disease prevention and the means of putting these approaches into practice
* Stewardship, regulation and financing of health systems and health care at a national level, and tools for evaluaiton and quality assurance.
* Gender as a socio-cultural construct and as a cross-sectional category that significantly influences the health and living conditions of women and men.
* Diversity as a multitude of structural categories including socio-economic status, age, ethnic background, and sexual orientation that further influence health and the living conditions of women and men.
* The hence resulting societal, social, and political causes for differences in mortality and morbidity between the genders and other diversity-relevant populations.
* Equity within the allocation of health resources with regard to gender and diversity-relevant populations.
(3) The aim of the program is for students to acquire knowledge, methods, skills, and experiences necessary for work in an international/global public health field that focuses on gender and diversity. Possible spheres of activity include research, consultation, and management tasks aimed at sustaining and improving the health of demographic groups with particular reference to gender and diversity.
(4) Exposure to lectures, seminars, projects, and research work enables students to acquire skills and gain knowledge about the following:
* Analysis and evaluation of health situations relating to the population as a whole and also to gender and diversity-relevant populations at communal, regional, and national levels as well as in comparison with international standards.
* Investigation of the physical, psychological, social, and environmental conditions of health and disease as well as their correlation to gender and diversity-relevant populations.
* Recognition of public health problems and tasks and the development and formulation of scientifically-based solutions from a gender/diversity perspective.
* Analysis and evaluation of the structure, cost developments, and dynamics of health systems.
* Evaluation and quality assurance in health care service provision and health promotion programs.
* Advocacy and advisory skills to improve empowerment and health promotion and disease prevention in populations..
(5) The program is primarily research-oriented.
Contents
The course of study, including the writing of the Master´s thesis, lasts 12 months. The language of instruction will be English. Intended to take place within this period are four modules as on-site study, a project course and three months for the completion of the master´s thesis.
Study Content
* Introduction to Methods and Basics of Public Health
* Diseases and health risks
* Reproductive health in an intercultural context
* Health systems, health policy-making, planning and management in healthcare
Project Course
A 4 week project course will be completed during the study program. The project course placements will be acquired within the course of study with the help of internationally operating institutions (for example, GTZ, WHO), the co-operating colleges outside of the country and through foreign teaching personnel. The project course is intended to be completed within an institution that represents a possible field of employment for the students. The co-operating universities and various international organisations have already offered project course placements. In addition, the project course placements for the public health course of study concluded in Berlin can be fallen back on in Berlin and Germany.
Master Thesis
The writing of the Master Thesis lasts 3 months.
German Language Course
The language course accompanying the Master Study Program "Health and Society: International Gender Studies Berlin" aims at communicating the basic principles of German language.
* greeting and presentation: names, age, countries and towns of origin, profession and hobbies
* shopping, ordering, eating und drinking: numbers, food, restaurants, coffee bars, quantities
* appointments and invitations: time, days of the week and months, dates
* orientation: asking for the way, describing the way
* family and kinship: relations of kinship, appearance (clothes and colours)
* communication during class: asking something, asking for questions, calling on someone to do something, materials for education
* administrative tasks: completing forms, understanding and writing resumes
* private conversation: duties, wishes, dreams etc.
* telling a (coherent) story (advanced level)
* researching und studying: writing emails, being on the telephone, getting and understanding information, working in the library
The different topics relevant for everyday life include specific areas of vocabulary and central domains of German grammar.
Goals
Upon completion of the language course, the students will be able to communicate in a meaningful way in German. They will have the ability to carry on simple conversations, to understand, to comment on and to write short texts, to follow the news and to communicate within the university domain. They will have a basic understanding of German Grammar and will be able to independently adress further challenges of the German language.
PartnersBerlin School of Public Health
Please visit the website of the Berlin School of Public Health.
Center for Gender in Medicine (GiM)
Please visit the website of the Center for Gender in Medicine.
International Studies Network (BISS)
The Berlin-Brandenburg International Studies Network (BISS) is an alliance of now 27 international, postgradual Master/PHD-programs with various scientific backgrounds of the universities and the Universities of Applied Sciences the region Berlin-Brandenburg.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Health professionals, educators, professionals from human and social sciences, social scientists and others are invited to apply.
Admission requirements
* A college degree (Bachelors level or above (diploma, etc.))
* Evidence of sufficient mastery of the English language (for example, TOEFL)
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Ask a Question
You can contact Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kaczmarczyk to ask a question about Health and Society: International Gender Studies Berlin at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
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