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Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Psychology

 

Entry Requirements: 3 “A” Level passes plus Mathematics C or better at ‘O’ level and a Science Subject.

 

First Year Core Courses at 1st and 2nd Semesters in Psychology

PSY 100 Introduction to Psychology (24 units): The course focuses on learning, memory, human development, motivation and emotions

PSY101 Social Psychology (24 Units): This course introduces students to history of psychology, person perception and non-verbal communication and attitude change.

 

Second Year Courses Offered at 1st Semester in Psychology

PSY200 Research Methods in Psychology (24 units): The course is about formulating research proposal. PSY201 Statistics and Computing (24 units): The course teaches definition and overview of statistics and statistical samples.

PSY202 Psychobiology: This course focuses on the anatomy of central nervous system and non-visual sensations

PSY 204 Child Development: The course has linguistical behaviour on the growing up of a child.

PSY208 Sensation and Perception: This course covers detection, recognition, discrimination, measurement, scaling and adaption level.

 

Second Year Courses offered at 2nd Semester in Psychology

PSY200 Research Methods in Psychology (24 units): The course is about formulating research proposal.

PSY201 Statistics and Computing (24 units): The course teaches definition and overview of statistics and statistical samples.

PSY203 Principles of Learning: The course contains the principality of learning

PSY205 Comparative Psychology: The course aims at equipping the student with comparative approaches.

PSY207 Adolescence and Adulthood: The course focuses on adolescence development in early childhood, middle adulthood and late adulthood.

 

Third Year Courses offered at 1st semester in Psychology

PSY301 Psychometrics: The course enables one to carry psychological testing such as ethics, social consideration and psychometric theory.

PSY 302 Psychopathology: The course looks at abnormal behaviour, description of the DSM IV, mood disorders etc.

PSY303 Applied Principles of Learning: The course covers, therapies based on operant conditioning, increasing behaviour with operant techniques.

PSY306 Psychology and Law: The course covers crime and its causes, psychological understanding of crime and detecting deceptions.

PSY307 Cognition: The course covers pattern recognition.

PSY309 Organisational Psychology: The course covers psychological differences which are encountered in an organization.

 

Third Year Courses at 2nd Semester in Psychology

PSY304 Personality: The course introduces the concept of psychoanalysis.

PSY305 Systems and Theories: It focuses on the theories that can be applied in different systems.

PSY308 Psychotherapy: The course covers assessment of psychological disorders.

PSY312 Personnel Psychology: The course looks at issues of recruitment and section boards in an organisation

PSY313 Consumer Psychology: The course looks at issues that short-changed consumers in marketing.

PSY310 Forensic Psychology: The course looks at interface between psychology and law.

PSY311 Contemporary Issues in Psychology: The course focuses on current and emerging perspectives, theories, field and methodologies in psychology.

PSY370 Dissertation: Research Project

 

Career prospects of graduate in Social Work: NGOs, Private and Public Sector, Parastatals, Law Enforcement Agencies