Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Psychology with Second Major in Biological Sciences

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With a rising emphasis in Singapore on the awareness of mental health, there is increasing demand for professionals with interdisciplinary background in biological sciences and psychology. Graduates from this programme can explore further education leading to careers in professions such as counselling psychologist, occupational psychologist, clinical psychologist, educational psychologist and neuropsychologist. This is an interdisciplinary programme between the School of Social Sciences and School of Biological Sciences that incorporates existing Psychology courses and Biological Sciences courses. Students will read courses from both schools.

Level 1000 and 2000 courses provide broad overviews of major areas of psychology. They serve as the basic foundation for more advanced studies in psychology.

Level 3000 courses are lecture-tutorial courses on more specialised fields of psychology.

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.

Professional courses

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

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.

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)

For Biological Sciences Courses, please refer to  Biological Sciences Course Offerings.

Level 5000 courses are only offered as GER-PE (LA).

The Graduation Project (HP4099) is undertaken during a student’s final year and has to be completed over two consecutive semesters, without any break. Students who successfully complete the Graduation Project will be awarded 8 AUs.

Registered students are not allowed to apply for semester leave or go on exchange programme.

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 Programme's Graduation Project Coordinator is Assoc Prof Michael Gumert ([email protected]​)

 

GP is compulsory for students with cGPA of 3.90 and above to be eligible for Honours (Highest Distinction) and Honours (Distinction). 

Students with CGPA within the holding band of 3.75 to 3.89 will be allowed to opt-in to do Graduation Project at the discretion of the Programme. 

Students below the required CGPA of 3.75 will not be allowed to do Graduation Project but must read two 4000-level courses to fulfil the 8 AUs requirement. 

Please refer to your respective HP4099 NTULearn course site for details.

Please submit the softcopy of your Graduation Project/FYP to DR-NTU:

DR-NTU Submission Guidelines: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/c.php?g=926884&p=6695137

For enquires on DR-NTU submission, please email [email protected]

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