The graduate has a theoretical and professional grounding in adult education – including application of methods – adult didactics and gerontagogy in addition to knowledge and skills in personnel management, human resources processes and activities and in application of human resources methods. Further skills were developed through a range of elective courses.

Graduates understand the key sociological concepts, are able to describe and explain them and to apply them in the examination of social reality. They have an understanding of key theoretical approaches in sociology, key authors and their concepts. They understand principles of social research and are able to autonomously perform tasks in quantitative social research.