The Graduation Project is undertaken during a student’s final year and over two consecutive semesters. Students who successfully pass the Graduation Project will be awarded 8 AUs. Students who are planning to go for exchange are not allowed to register for Graduation Project.

The objective of the Graduation Project is to expose students to the elements that are inherent in independent research work in psychology. With the guidance of an advisor, the student will learn to identify a research issue in an area of psychology, conduct empirical, meta-analytical (use of secondary data), or library research, and write up a research report of about 9,000 to 10,000 words. 

Before beginning, the Graduation Project students should have their project approved by the relevant Ethical Committee.  Please find information regarding the Psychology Programme Ethical Committee here. 

The School of Social Sciences (SSS) offers our students more choices to take Major-PEs in other fields of study other than those related to their own major programmes, that they may have the opportunity to gain interdisciplinary training within the humanities and social sciences discipline. The School has carefully selected a set of interdisciplinary Major-PEs, so as to provide students with​ a broad-based curriculum within the School.

This list of Interdisciplinary Major-PEs are for students who are interested and confident to take modules outside their Major of Study. If students wish to focus on taking Major-PEs from their own major programme, they can still do so. 

The following modules are part of a common pool of Interdisciplinary Major-PEs that all SSS students can register for, regardless of their offering Programme with effect from Semester 2, AY2016-2017.

Modules with pre-requisites are indicated in red below.

Please note that: 

1. Students are allowed to take not more than 2 courses from the common pool of Major-PEs courses as substitute of their own Major-PEs.

2. ​​A waiver of the pre-requisites for SSS students will be granted to students who wish to register any of these 18 modules. They will be advised that they need to put in more effort when attempting higher level courses in the list with pre-requisite.

    

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE USE OF CALCULATORS IN EXAMINATIONS:

All calculators that are to be brought into the examination halls must be registered by the School.

School of Social Sciences students are required to get their calculators registered at the SSS Undergraduate Office at any time during the following hours:

Time : 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (Mondays to Friday, excluding public holiday)

Venue : SSS-01-02 (SSS Undergraduate Office counter)

However, if you have already registered your calculator previously and the seal is not broken, you do not have to register it again.

Re-registering of Calculator is required only if you are using a new calculator or the seal on your current calculator has broken.

Please remember that all calculators that are brought into the exam halls are to have the School's seal on it.

Approved Models

Disapproved Models

Please read carefully the Rules of Governing the Use of Calculators at Examinations.

Graphic calculators are allowed for use in the new GCE 'A' Level Curriculum from 2006. For consistency, the University will allow the use of graphic calculators with effect from S1 AY 2006-07 examinations.

Students are responsible for clearing any information and/or programs stored in the graphic calculators before the examination.