AY2018-19 - AY2019-20

The B.A. (Hons) in Psychology with 2nd Major in Biological Sciences is designed as a four-year course. To graduate, students are required to complete 135 academic units (AUs) from the Psychology Major Requirements, Biological Sciences 2nd Ma​jor Requirements  and General Education Requirements (GER). Students are required to maintain a CGPA of at least 4.0 throughout their programme. Students who do not fulfil the minimum CGPA of 4.0 will be transferred to the B.A (Ho​ns) in Psychology programme, i.e. without 2nd Major in Biological Sciences. The distribution of the courses of study and the number of academic units are shown in the table below.


Course Type

AU

Psychology Requirements ​

Major-Core

27

Major-PE

42

GER-Core

17

GER-PE

​ ​

Business and Management (BM)

3

Liberal Arts (LA)

3

GER-UE

10

Biological Sciences 2nd Major Requirements ​ ​
GER-UE​ ​Compulsory Courses​18​
Prescribed Elective Courses​15​

Total AU

135


The Major Requirements for Psychology Major consists of 2 components:

  • Major Core Courses (27 AUs)
  • Major Prescribed Electives (42 AUs)

Note:

Students are recommended to take an average of 3 psychology courses every semester (except for the first semester of Year 1).

Students are strongly encouraged to read the Psychology Core courses as soon as they are offered. These courses form the pre-requisites for more advanced psychology courses. A failure to clear the core courses as early as possible will impose restrictions on the choice of courses in future semesters.

Students should complete one laboratory course in Year 3, before the start of the Graduation Project/FYP.

Important note to students going on exchange (both overseas and local)

  1. Students must complete all Major Core courses at NTU.
  2. Students are only permitted to complete up to a maximum of three courses during the exchange and have them count towards fulfilling their Major-Electives requirement.

The 9 Major Core courses (27 AUs) are compulsory foundation courses designed to provide broad overviews of major areas of psychology. They serve as the basic foundation for more advanced studies in psychology. Each course is equivalent to 3 AUs. Level 1000 courses should be completed in Year 1. The remaining core courses should ideally be completed by the end of Year 2.

HP1000 Introduction to Psychology
HP1100 Fundamentals of Social Science Research
HP2100 Research Design and Data Analysis in Psychology
HP2200 Biological Psychology
HP2300 Developmental Psychology
HP2400 Social Psychology
HP2500 Personality and Individual Differences
HP2600 Cognitive Psychology
HP2700 Abnormal Psychology

Major Elective courses provide students with opportunities to explore specialized areas of psychology in more depth and intensity. The students may select their courses of study according to their own interests and career goals. 

Students must choose 10 electives (34 AUs) from the wide range of Psychology Prescribed Electives with 6 level 3000 courses and 4 level 4000 courses.

HP3001 Learning and Behavioral Analysis
HP3002 Positive Psychology
HP3003 Engineering Psychology
HP3100 Selected Topics in Basic Psychological Sciences
HP3101 Applied Statistical Methods for Psychological Research
HP3200 Selected Topics in Social and Personality Psychology
HP3201 Evolutionary Psychology
HP3202 Alcohol, Drugs and Behaviour
HP3203 Conservation Psychology
HP3300 Selected Topics in Applied Psychological Sciences
HP3204 An Ape's Guide to Human Language
HP3301 Issues and Concerns in Adolescence
HP3302 Cognitive Development 
HP3401 The Social Psychology of Human Communication
HP3402 Social Cognition
HP3501 Human Motivation
HP3601 Human Memory
HP3602 Reading Development and Disorders
HP3603 Sensation and Perception​
HP3701 Psychological Adjustment and Mental Health
HP3702 Child Psychopathology
HP3703 Health Psychology
HP3704 Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology 
HP3705 Clinical Community Psychology
HP3706 Biofeedback & Neurofeedback: Health and Performance
HP3707 The Psychology of Pain and its Management
HP3708 Biopsychosocial Criminology
HP3801 Psychology in the Workplace
HP3802 Personnel Psychology
HP3804 Psychological Testing 
HP3805 Managing Organisational Behavior
HP3806 Consumer Psychology
HP3807 Occupational Health Psychology​
HP3901 Cultural Psychology
HP3902 Psychology in the Asian Context

Level 4000 courses are divided into four types: Laboratory courses, Professional courses, Seminars and Graduation Project/FYP (for eligible students).

Laboratory courses
Laboratory courses focus on the hands-on training of research skills in psychology. 
All students who intend to complete a Graduation Project/FYP in Psychology are required to complete one laboratory course before starting the Graduation Project/FYP.
The fulfilment of at least one laboratory course is a requirement for graduation regardless if students are eligible to do the Graduation Project/FYP.

HP4021 Laboratory in Human and Animal Neuroscience
HP4031 Laboratory in Developmental Psychology
HP4041 Laboratory in Social Psychology
HP4051 Laboratory in Personality and Individual Differences
HP4061 Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology
HP4062 Laboratory in Human Factors
HP4081 Laboratory in Industrial and Organizational Psychology​​
HP4091 Current Research in Cultural Psychology 

Professional courses
Professional courses offer students knowledge about the actual work of professional psychologists in applied settings.

HP4101 Clinical Psychology
HP4102 Trauma Psychology, Crisis Intervention and Management
HP4103 The Forensic Psychology of Crime, Terrorism and Disasters
HP4104 Evidence-based Practice in Clinical Psychology
HP4105 Correctional Psychology​
HP4106 Mental Health in the Community
HP4107 Industrial-Organisational Psychology in Practice

 

Seminars
Seminars are discussion-based courses on an advanced research area. These courses often involve both undergraduate and graduate students in in-depth discussion of the up-and-coming research in a specialized area.

HP4002 Qualitative Methods in Psychology
HP4012 Applied Multivariate Methods for Psychological Research
HP4200 Seminar in Selected Topics  
HP4201 Technology and Social Behaviour
HP4211 Agent-Based Computational Psychology
HP4221 Primate Psychology
HP4222 The Neuroscience of Love​
HP4231 Social and Emotional Development
HP4232 Development of Self-Regulation
HP4233 Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy
HP4241 Interpersonal relations and family studies
HP4242 Advanced Topics in Social Cognition
HP4243 Intergroup relations
HP4251 Psychobiology of Creative Personalities
HP4261 Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision
HP4262 Multisensory Integration
HP4263 Language in Perception & Thought
HP4271 Cognitive Neuroplasticity
HP4272 Neuropsychology
HP4273 Introduction to Functional MRI
HP4274 The Last Dance: Psycho-social-cultural perspectives of Death, Dying and Bereavement
HP4281 Psychology of Leadership
HP4282 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

 

Graduation Project/FYP
The Graduation Project/FYP exposes students to the elements that are inherent in independent research work in psychology.  

HP4099 Graduation Project/FYP (8AUs


The GER-Core courses are specified by the School as being essential for the training of today’s Social Sciences graduates. The courses cover areas such as communication and environmental sustainability. 

  • Communication Skills
    HW0111 Communication: A Journey of Inquiry through Writing and Speech Last​​ (2 AUs)
    HW0208 Academic Communication in the Social Sciences (2 AUs)
  • Digital Literacy
    HD0101 Digital Society (3 AUs)
    HD0102 Making Sense of Big Data  (3 AUs)
  • Sustainability (1 AU)** - to be taken in Year 1
  • Ethics & Academic Integrity (1 AU)** - to be taken in Year 2
  • Singapore Studies (3 AUs) - to be taken in Year 2
  • Career Preparatory Course (1 AU)* - to be taken in Year 3
  • Enterprise & Innovation (1 AU)** - to be taken in Year 3
  •      * Online courses that will be offered in Semester 1 of every academic year.   
       ** Online courses that will be offered in Semester 2 of every academic year.   

Students to choose 2 courses from 2 categories of studies

  • Business and Management
  • Liberal Arts

To qualify for the 2nd Major in Biological Science, students must complete a minimum of 33AUs of courses from Biological Sciences under the General Education Requirement Unrestricted Elective (GER-UE) category.

The following 6 courses are compulsory:

BS1001 Introductory Biology
BS1005 Biochemistry I
BS1006 Principles of Genetics
 BS1007 Molecular and Cell Biology I
BS2004 Molecular and Cell Biology II
 BS2001 Physiology

Students have a choice of 5 electives from the Tables A, B and C with the following 2 courses highly recommended:

Students can read an additional 10AUs in GER-UE courses outside of their Psychology Major and Biological Sciences 2nd Major. There are no restrictions on the selection of courses to make up unrestricted electives. Students can choose any of the following:

  • Earn AUs under an International Exchange programme.
  • Earn AUs under the optional Professional Attachment programme offered under HSS.
  • Any course offered by any School as long as the pre-requisites are satisfied.

 

For information about the University Academic Unit System, Grade Point Average System and calculation of Honours Classification, please refer to the AUS Handbooks applicable to your intake.