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Minor in Psychology

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Minor in Psychology

The Minor in Psychology provides students with a broad understanding of the major principles in psychology, as well as knowledge and skills related to research methods commonly used in psychology. The Minor in Psychology can be combined with a major in a related field and will provide valuable skills for engaging with others and for understanding and analysing complex individual, group, and social processes. With the growing local and international interest in this field, a minor in Psychology provides an excellent background for students planning careers in a wide range of areas. This includes business (advertising, service sectors, human resources, management, marketing, and organisational behaviour), education, the military, the police, the media, in public affairs, the health sciences, social work, and psychology related professions.

To take psychology as a minor, students must have taken HP1000 and obtained a B- grade or better. 

To be awarded a Minor in Psychology, students must complete two Psychology core, one Psychology foundation, and two Psychology elective courses.

Core

Students must complete the following two Psychology Core courses. These two courses are prerequisites for most other Psychology courses.

  • HP1000 Introduction to Psychology
  • HP1100 Fundamentals of Social Science Research

Foundation

Students must complete one Psychology foundation course from the following list of courses.

  • 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

Elective

Psychology electives are level 3000 courses and students must complete two of them.

HP3002             Positive Psychology
HP3003             The Psychology of Everyday Design
HP3004             The Psychology of Food & Eating
HP3101             Applied Statistical Methods for Psychological Research
HP3200             Selected Topics in Social & Personality Psychology
HP3201             Evolutionary Psychology
HP3202             Primate Behavioural Ecology
HP3203             Conservation Psychology
HP3204             An Ape's Guide to Human Language
HP3205             Animal Behavior
HP3206             Environmental Psychology
HP3302             Cognitive Development
HP3303             Geropsychology
HP3304             Psychopathology & Mental Well-Being in Later Life
HP3305             Adolescence
HP3402             Social Cognition
HP3502             Psychology of Emotion
HP3601             Human Memory
HP3603             Sensation & Perception
HP3702             Child Psychopathology
HP3703             Health Psychology
HP3704             Introduction to Neuropsychology
HP3708             Biopsychosocial Criminology
HP3802             Personnel Psychology
HP3804             Psychological Testing
HP3805             Managing Organisational Behavior
HP3806             Consumer Psychology
HP3807             Occupational Health Psychology
HP3901             Cultural Psychology
HP3902             Community Psychology 

For list of course outlines, please click here.

Important notes to all minor students

Please make sure that you complete HP1100 as soon as your schedule allows. Almost all Psychology courses require HP1100 as a pre-requisite.

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

  • All Minor courses must be read as GER-UEs / BDEs.
  • All Psychology Core courses must be completed at NTU.
  • Students are permitted to complete up to a maximum of two courses during the exchange and count them towards fulfilling their Psychology Elective requirement.
  • Students are not allowed to read level 4000 courses.

For information on Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) Option, please click here.

You may find out more information on Minor programmes in NTU here.

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