Name of the Department: Psychology
Year of Establishment: 1996
Programs Offered: B.A. in Psychology
Pattern of Teaching Learning and Evaluation:
| Annual | Semester | Credit System |
| TYBA | – | FYBA/SYBA |
| – |
About the Department |
The department of Psychology is one of the leading departments of this college. The department runs the programme in Psychology at under graduate level. Apart from the academics, the faculty from the department constantly keeps motivating students for co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. The teachers from the department are very keen on developing the overall personality of the students and therefore keep them engaged in various activities run by the department. Remedial teaching classes are conducted for the weaker students to make the class homogeneous. To start M A in Psychology is one of the future plans of the department.
Vision |
To promote the learning, well-being and overall development of students through excellent education, research opportunities, and counselling services.
Mission |
As an undergraduate department, the Department of Psychology is committed to provide a strong foundation of the basic knowledge and skills necessary for advanced study in psychology and related disciplines; to provide the competence necessary for successful careers; and to offer skills for happy and successful personal life.
Goals |
To fulfil its threefold mission, the Department of Psychology has following goals:
- To promote psychology as a science
- To create awareness about an important role Psychology plays in advancing human welfare.
- To help students to gain awareness of the nature and role of psychological processes operating within themselves and their environment.
- To provide competence to achieve career goals
- To encourage and support research necessary for the advancement of knowledge.
- To publicize knowledge of psychology to the community at large.
POs/COs/PSOs |
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Programme Specific Outcomes (PSO)-2019 Pattern
FYBA
Psychology General-1
Semester-1
Foundations of Psychology
Outcomes:-
To impart knowledge of the basic concepts and modern trends in psychology.
To increase interest in the subject of psychology and to create a foundation for further studies in psychology.
To make the students aware of the application of psychological concepts in various fields
The basic psychological processes and their applications in day to day life.
Psychology develop the ability to evaluate cognitive processes, learning and memory of an individual.
Psychology helps to understand the importance of motivation and emotion of the individual.
The personality and intelligence of the individuals by developing their psychological processes and abstract potentials.
It shapes students as socially responsible/ citizens.
Semester-2
Introduction to Social Psychology
Outcomes:-
Social psychology helps to understand Social behaviour .
Understand the nature of self, concept of attitude and prejudice of the individual.
Assess the interactional processes, love and aggression in our day today life. .
Understand group dynamics and individual in the social world.
Introduction to behaviour of people in social settings.
Social psychology theories and experimental evidences.
SYBA
Psychology General-2
Core Course-I(CC-1C)- 3Credit
Semester -3 1A: Health Psychology
Learning Objectives:
Explain social support’s impact on an individual’s physical health.
The impact of stress on physical well- being.
Differentiate health psychology from behavioural medicine.
Explore common areas of clinical focus in health psychology.
Interventions health psychologists use to treat patients experiencing stress.
Outcomes:-
Understand health psychology and arrive at the introduction to the role of psychology in health.
Understand the nature of stress and coping
Understand various factors related to health and diseases.
Understand quality of life and promoting the good health.
Semester-4
CC/SEC- 1B: Positive Psychology
Learning Objectives:
Describe the dimensions and scope of positive psychology.
The role of positive emotions in psychological wellbeing and health.
Identify and explain our character strengths.
Outcomes:-
Understand how the positive psychology as the science of happiness, human strengths, positive aspects of human behaviour and ‘psychology of well-being.’
How we lead our lives, find happiness and satisfaction, and face life’s challenges.
How positive psychology has become an evolving mosaic of research and theory from many different areas of psychology.
Psychology Special -1
Discipline Specific Elective Course (DSE-1A)- 3 Credit
Semester -3 DSE-1A: Psychology of Abnormal Behaviour-1
Learning Objectives:
To acquire a better understanding of abnormal behaviour patterns, and thereby learn to distinguish abnormal behaviour from normal.
To become more familiar with the DSM-V.
To better understand how new research informs our understanding of abnormal behaviour.
To increase sensitivity to the struggles of people dealing with these types of problems putting a human face on the study of abnormal behaviour.
Outcomes
Acquire the knowledge about the symptoms, diagnostic criteria, and causes of various psychological disorders
Examine multiple probable causes and correlates of behaviour.
Understand critiques, limitations, and implications of diagnosis and classification of psychological diseases.
Create awareness about mental health problems in society.
Semester-4
DSE-1B: PSYCHOLOGY OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR-II
Learning Objectives:
To acquire a better understanding of abnormal behaviour patterns, and thereby learn to distinguish abnormal behaviour from normal.
To become more familiar with the DSM-V.
To better understand how new research informs our understanding of abnormal behaviour.
To increase sensitivity to the struggles of people dealing with these types of problems putting a human face on the study of abnormal behaviour.
Outcomes:
Learn descriptions, and theories underlying diagnostic of psychiatric disorders.
Learn and understand benefits, critiques, limitations, and implications of diagnosis and classification.
Help students to acquire the knowledge about the symptoms, diagnostic criteria, and causes of various psychological disorders.
Examine multiple probable causes and correlates of behaviour.
Create awareness about mental health problems in society.
Psychology Special -2
DSE-2A : Developmental Psychology
Semester-3
Learning Objectives:
Define Developmental theory and explain how theories are used to understand child behaviour and development.
Examine and evaluate the role of play and its relationship to development at various stages.
The effect of biological, environmental and cultural influences on development of children of all ages.
Outcomes:-
Understand the importance, characteristics and concern in lifespan development
Understand biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional processes.
Understand the periods of development, the significance of age, and discuss developmental issues.
Understand Psychoanalytic, Cognitive, Behavioural and Social Cognitive, Ethological, Ecological and Eclectic theories of development
Understand methods of data collection and research designs used in Life-span development research
Semester- 4
DSE-2B: Theories of Personality
Learning Objectives:-
Identify meaning and appropriate application of course concepts.
Personality related processes that underlie individual differences in behaviour.
Personality theory are to explain how people behave and to predict responses to life’s demands.
Outcomes:
Understand the concept of personality with various theories of personality on the basis of personality psychology.
Understand different framework and theoretical aspects of personality.
Understand and observe, interpret individual differences in behaviour in the light of sound theoretical systems of personality.
Understand comprehensive overview of the major theories personality.
Skill Enhancement Courses
Semester-3
SEC-2A: Health Promotion Life Skills
Life skill help individuals to deal with rapid changes brought about by modernization.
Life skill are promoting psycho-social abilities and consequently they provide psycho physical health.
Life skill motivated healthy behaviour and increase self confidence.
Semester-4
SEC-2B: Basic Counselling Skills
Facilitating behavioural change.
Helping improve the client’s ability to both establish and maintain relationship.
Helping enhance the client’s effectiveness and their ability to cope.
Helping promote the decision making process while facilitating client potential.
Semester -V
Subject – Industrial & organizational psychology
1: Students would understand the concept of industrial and organizational psychology, selection and training, evaluation and motivation at workplace.
2: They will be able to explain job profile, job analysis, recruitment techniques and employee training.
3: They would be able to identify and classify the appraisal rating system.
4: They will be able to compare different theories of motivation.
5: They would be able to evaluate the training programme and job performance.
Subject -Psychological testing theory
1: Students will be able to describe the concept of psychological test, reliability, validity and norms.
2: Students will be able to classify and categorize psychological tests, reliability- validity-norms types.
3: Students will be able to identify the reliability and validity of psychological tests,
4: Students will be able to evaluate the types of norms.
5: They can conduct testing project for behaviour analysis.
Subject – Psychological tests(statistics)
1: Students will be able to describe mapping of human behaviour.
2: Students will be able to explain general ability testing, personality, adjustment and attitude.
3: Students will be able to identify and classify the intellectual ability and personality patterns.
4: They can conduct testing and evaluate intellectual ability, personality traits, adjustment and attitudes of
participant.
5: They will understand statistical methods employed in behaviour analysis.
Subject – (SEC)- Personality Development 1
1: Students will be able to describe the concept of personality.
2: Students will be able to identify and classify various personality traits.
3: They can correlate real life behavioural patterns with theoretical assumptions.
4: They can apply psychological skills in daily life situations
Semester VI
Subject – Apllied psychology
1: Students will be able to describe the concept of applied psychology, educational psychology, family structure and
developmental patterns.
2: Students will know the clinical psychology related mechanisms, social issues, and criminal behaviour.
3: They will be able to classify the intellectual ability, abnormality, criminal behaviour.
4: They will be able to identify the problems and solutions in the field of education,
5: They will be able to evaluate the interpersonal relations.
6: They will be able to apply psychological remedies to assess abonormal behaviour, to tackle the social issues and to rectify the problematic behaviour.
Subject – Experimental psychology theory
1: Students will be able to describe the process of experiment in psychology, concept of psychophysics.
2: Students will be able to explain problem, hypothesis, variables, sampling in experiment.
3: They will be able to identify and classify the learning system, methods of psychophysics.
4: They will be able to compare laws of psychophysics, types of hypotheses.
5: They will be able to conduct research-based project.
Subject – Psychological Experiment
1: Students will be able to explain psychophysics, various cognitive processes of human being.
2: Students will be able to classify and compare psychological experiments.
3: Students will be able to conduct laboratory experiments.
4: Students will be able to analyse statistical base of human behavior.
Subject – (SEC) Personality Development 2
1: Students will be able to describe the concept of self-esteem and personality development.
2: Students will be able to identify and classify behavioural assessment techniques.
3: Students will be able to evaluate personality of individuals.
4: Students will be able to apply psychological skills to develop own personality