The Department of Business and Management develops and carries out professional development programmes of study in areas that offer career opportunities, such as Compliance, Security Management and Enterprise Security, and Family Business and Entrepreneurship. In addition, the department offers educational programmes to strengthen fundamental management skills, and conducts research on the role of executives in the realization of lifelong learning.
Departments
DUW’s teaching and research profile is concentrated on those areas of society that are changing the fastest today in ways that directly affect the job market: Business and Management, Education, Health Care, and Communication.
DUW offers continuing education master’s degree courses and certificate programmes, and conducts research, in these four departments. Both the research activities of DUW and its departments and the development of the university’s continuing education programmes are founded on a continuous dialog between DUW and the “real world” of work and enterprise.
Business and Management
Education
The Department of Education is especially devoted to fundamental research on academic continuing education and the professionalization of educational institutions. It brings together the fields of continuing education research and education management, and offers professional development master’s degree and certificate programmes in the areas of Education and Skills Management oriented towards various segments of the education system. The department supports companies and institutions in developing and realizing personnel development concepts.
Health Care
The Department of Health Care places its emphasis on continuing education offerings in fields related to medicine and the natural sciences to qualify working professionals for interdisciplinary tasks in the pharmaceutical industry, in government agencies, and in other health care institutions. Special attention is given to transdisciplinary approaches in drug research and management and the field of ageing.
Communication
The Department of Communication offers research-based continuing education programmes that enable working students to take on new assignments in the area of communication in specific industries. In view of the complex interdependencies of government, business and culture, special importance is given to a holistic approach that also deals with new information and communication technologies.
General Professional Studies (Interdepartmental Programmes)
The interdisciplinary continuing education certificate programmes in General Professional Studies are offered in cooperation between several departments. Working students in these programmes expand and deepen their management and personal skills. General Professional Studies address the requirements of today’s project-oriented professional world, in which simple substantive and methodological qualifications are no longer sufficient to manage the tasks at hand, so that generalist skills are increasingly in demand.