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School Psychology

This course will introduce students to the various assessment methods and models including psychological, behavioural (including task analysis), social systems, medical and ecological models. Also to be treated will be individual and group assessment methods, focusing on persons as well as contextual and environmental features that may influence their behaviour. Such knowledge will enable students to engage in assessments of various kinds including educational, social, language, psychological and vocational assessments. Students will also be introduced to the various forms of intervention that help promote individual development.

Course Code: 
BPS 424
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology will provide the student with an insight into the internal processes that are responsible for the complexity in human thinking, concept formation, meta-cognitions and problem solving behaviour. The theoretical perspectives on human cognition and specific fields of cognition and human information processing, as well as issues of stability and instability in cognition will be studied.

Course Code: 
BPS 423
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Instructional Psychology

This course examines theories in instructional psychology and instructional leadership as these influence instructional delivery in both school and training settings. It will cover instructional planning, task and learner analysis issues, varieties of learning and instructional systems development. Various models of instruction and their applications in instructional delivery will also be discussed.

Course Code: 
BPS 422
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Seminar in Psychology

This course will expose the psychology student to a wide variety of ideas in the field, which may enable the learner develop an area of specialization for further studies. The seminars will involve students and lecturers research activities and presentations. The discussions that will evolve will be an important source of improved understanding of the various topics that have been studied in other courses. It will also unify ideas learnt in different courses towards the solution of problems that will be discussed during the seminar.

Course Code: 
BPS 421
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Psychology of Crime (Elective)

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the theoretical and practical issues from key areas of criminological psychology. The course will examine the contributions made by psychology to the theory, prevention and treatment of criminal behaviour, the prevention and investigation of crime and the understanding of criminal justice processes.

Course Code: 
BPS 419
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Psychology of the Aged

This course will devote itself to the study of the aging process and the elderly. It will cover the biological, social and psychological processes involved in aging and rhe influence of lifestyle and social circumstances on this process. It will also include the care of the aged and examine the various theories about the aged and their perceptions. Difficult issues that confront the aged such as spousal loss, isolation, invalidity and dying will all be discussed alongside the handling of these situations.

Course Code: 
BPS 418
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Social Change in Organisations (Elective)

This course will examine social change as an integral process with a focus on efforts at transforming social, public and private sector organisations including health, education and service institutions. The theories and dynamics of social change in institutions and the catalysts and elements of change will be discussed with a focus on leadership roles in initiating and managing the change process.

Course Code: 
BPS 417
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Group Dynamics (Elective)

This course will inform students about the ways in which people interact with one another and are influenced in social settings. Theoretical positions and research findings on conformity, obedience, audience effects and social loafing as well as how the processes responsible for these can be manipulated in leadership, union, ethnic, religious and other settings will be discussed.

Course Code: 
BPS 416
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Psychometrics

This course will expose psychology students to the design and analysis of research on the measurement of human characteristics. It will cover issues in statistics and quantitative methods that are pertinent to the measurement of human values, attitudes, attributes, interests and potentials. It will also cover measurement issues dealing with consumer surveys, job and performance analysis.

Course Code: 
BPS 415
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

Participatory Community Development (Elective)

This course will introduce students to community development based on participatory bottom-up, multi-sectorial models. Different approaches to development will be compared in terms of effectiveness. There will also be a focus on the principles that underlie sustainable development, culminating in the design of a development project based on the Village Earth model.

Course Code: 
BPS 414
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Psychology

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