Three-year BSc Psychology endeavours to prepare students for their professional journey in a dynamic, diverse and ever-growing field. Students can learn about the history of the discipline, theoretical foundations, branches including Counselling, child development, Bio-psychology, and human resources management. A great emphasis is placed on fostering students who need to be competent and socially sensitive psychologists that include a self-reflexive attitude, critical thinking, empathy and respect for individual differences.
The Department encourages an atmosphere of debate and discussion that nurtures the young minds, appreciates new and varied perspectives that interact to shape the human psyche. The integral part that forms the backbone of the discipline is the classic and contemporary psychological research. The curriculum of BSc Psychology has field visits, case study analyses, and extensive use of audio-visual media. After the graduate students go on to pursue various kinds of careers, including counselling, psychotherapy, work in schools, clinics, and non-government organisations. Several former students enjoy careers in the corporate world, while others move into teaching, advertising, law, etc.
Eligibility
Candidates shall be required to have passed the plus two or equivalent examination in any stream. For those who have studied Psychology or Home Science or Biology, and Chemistry, those marks will also be taken. Additional marks will be awarded to those who have studied Psychology at the school level.
GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES
- Professional training and skill enhancement after BSc Psychology provides and widens employment opportunities for women through the curriculum, addressing contemporary issues.
- Enable students to acquire life skills that assist in the enhancement of overall personal and professional attributes.
- To become academically qualified and mature, as enlightened individuals, we assist in the achievement of family and social goals.
- Orient students to enhance entrepreneurial competencies.
- Strengthening linkages with Government agencies, NGOs, policymakers and the general public with a view to providing employment opportunities for students and enriching the database in research in all fields.
- Influence and develop policies to advocate for individuals, families and communities to achieve empowerment and facilitate sustainable futures.
- Enable the learners to employ acquired knowledge in practical counselling to enable families, individuals, etc enjoy mental health to the maximum.
- Educating the individual for the highest quality practical training for life.
- Researching to discover the changing needs of the individuals, families and society and the means of satisfying these needs.
- Inculcate a sense of social awareness and a spirit of service to society.
- Furthering community, national and world conditions favourable to family and community living.
STRUCTURE OF BACHELOR’S PROGRAMME IN PSYCHOLOGY
The content BSc Psychology
The UG programme in Home Science includes
(a) Common Courses, (b) Core Courses, (c) Complementary Courses, (d) Open Courses and (e) Project.
No course shall carry more than 4 credits. The student shall select any Choice-based Course offered by the Department which offers the core courses, depending on the availability of teachers and infrastructure facilities, in the institution. The open course will be offered in any subject, and the student shall have the option to do courses offered by other Departments in the fifth semester.
Courses
The number of courses for the programme should contain 12 compulsory core courses and 1 choice-based course from the frontier area of the core courses, and a project; 8 complementary courses from the relevant subjects to complement the course of study. There should be 10 common courses which include the first and second language of study.
Scheme: Core Courses
| Semester | Title of course | Course code | No of hours per week | No. of credits | Total credits | Total hours/
semester |
| I. | Basic Psychological Processes
Practical – 1 |
CP1BT01B
CP1BP01B |
2
2 |
2
1 |
3 | 72 |
| II. | Basic Cognitive Processes
Practical – 2 |
CP2BT02B
CP2BP02B |
2
2 |
2
1 |
3 | 72 |
| III. | Counselling Psychology I
Practical – 3 |
CP3BT03B
CP3BP03B |
3
2 |
3
1 |
4 | 90 |
| IV. | Counselling Psychology II
Practical – 4 |
CP4BT04B
CP4BP04B |
3
2 |
3
2 |
5 | 90 |
| V. | Psychological Measurement and Testing
Practical – 5 |
CP5BT05B
CP5BP05B |
3
3 |
3 | 3 | 90 |
| Abnormal Behaviour
Practical – 6 |
CP5BT06B
CP5BP06B |
3
2 |
3 | 3 | 90 | |
| Life Skill Development
Practical – 7 |
CP5BT07B
CP5BP07B |
3
2 |
3 | 3 | 90 | |
| Health Psychology
Practical – 8 |
CP5BT08B
CP5BP08B |
3
2 |
2 | 2 | 90 | |
| Open Course | CP5DT01B | 4 | 4 | 4 | 72 | |
| VI. | Counselling and Psychotherapy
Practical – 9 |
CP6BT09B
CP6BP09B |
3
2 |
3
2 |
5 | 90 |
| Educational Psychology
Practical – 10 |
CP6BT10B
CP6BP10B |
3
3 |
3
2 |
5 | 90 | |
| Stress Management
Practical – 11 |
CP6BT11B
CP6BP11B |
3
3 |
3
2 |
5 | 90 | |
| Positive Psychology
Practical – 12 |
CP6BT12B
CP6BP12B |
3
2 |
3
2 |
5 | 90 | |
| Choice Based Course | CP6BT13B | 3 | 3 | 3 | 54 | |
| Project | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
- Two/three hours will be allotted for Practicals in each semester. The practical examination/document evaluation for the same will be conducted in even semesters.
Scheme: Complementary Courses
|
Semester |
Title of course | Course code | No of hours per week | No. of credits | Total credits | Total hours/
semester |
| I. | Biological Basis of Behaviour | CP1CT01B | 4 | 3 | 3 | 54 |
| I. | Life Span Development – I | CP1CT02B | 4 | 3 | 3 | 54 |
| II. | Neurophysiology of Behaviour | CP2CT03B | 4 | 3 | 3 | 54 |
| II. | Life Span Development – II | CP2CT04B | 4 | 3 | 3 | 54 |
| III. | Statistics – I | CP3CT05B | 4 | 4 | 4 | 54 |
| III. | Theories of Child Development – I | CP3CT06B | 4 | 4 | 4 | 54 |
| IV. | Statistics – II | CP4CT07B | 4 | 4 | 4 | 54 |
| IV. | Theories of Child Development – II | CP4CT08B | 4 | 4 | 4 | 54 |
