Due to the relatively newly built and small department team, the small class sizes and agile university management, there is a great deal of dynamism; students and teachers can participate in course development (without leaving the qualification framework or the like), and teachers contribute their own practical experience. The degree programme does not live by its tradition, but is open to the competencies and practical experiences of university lecturers, who reflect on them with the students and make them usable for students.

The department has its own media room at the Potsdam location with computers, VR glasses, tablets, etc., an exercise room, a music room and a theatre space with a stage. Access is provided to the online library, to databases from the social and healthcare sector as well as to the relevant programs for quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Mobile research-lab equipment is also available; it is centrally managed and can be ordered to the individual locations.

The university actively promotes diversity amongst its university members and supports inclusion in the academic field through advice, guidance and, if necessary, specific technical and organisational support.