BS-PSYCHOLOGY (4 YEARS PROGRAM)
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BS-PSYCHOLOGY (4 YEARS PROGRAM)
Program Overview
BS- Psychology program aims to guide students by ethics bringing in awareness, sensitivity and skill to work with wide array of clients by assessing, diagnosing and treating variety of psychological problems. Moreover, the program aims to create strong understanding of research and their use in clinical practice. Apart from that, Iqra National University is a place with countless opportunities. The purpose built campus with state-of-the-art facilities provides a unique learning experience for the student and help them grow both personally and intellectually.
AIMS & OBJECTIVES
- To ensure that the students are aware of the nature, origin, history and scope of Psychology as a modern discipline and its relationship with other sciences.
To be aware of the different perspectives – functional systems and theories – used inpsychology in order to study, understand and explain its subject matter.
- To be aware of the experimental and experimental underpinning of the study of psychology and develop a scientific approach to the subject.
To be conversant with the biological, biochemical and genetic basis of behavior.
To be fully knowledgeable about the cognitive, behavioral and personality functioning ofthe individual: developmentally, interpersonally and socially.
- To be familiar with the methods it employs for studying (as it is) and changing behavior (as it should be) and the strengths and weaknesses of these methods.
To be aware of the moral and ethical implications of psychological theories, procedures and practices.
To have a working knowledge of the application and the practice of psychology in real life and have all the necessary skills to continue a specialist study later on and achieve professional qualifications.
To be able to conceive, design, and conduct small scale research project and analyze the information and share it with other colleagues.
- To ensure that psychology is taught as an applied discipline in scientist-reflective.
To be conversant with the biological, biochemical, psycho social and genetic basis of behavior.
Every student must participate in seminar and annual research papers in each course on current respective area of psychology.
The student should develop inside and personality growth through internship.
Individually students need to inculcate the spirit of applying control over unbridled instinctive and impulsive actions, so that they acquire inside and behave on their rational judgment.
Eligibility Criteria:
12 years of education with 45% marks & as per HEC criteria.
Program Structure:
The BS- Psychology program requirement is minimum 136 credit hours, which includes 45 courses, a Research Project & Internship.
Program Duration:
The minimum duration of the program is 4 years / 8 semesters.
Faculty/ Staff
- Alam Zeb Khattak (Associate Professor/ HoP Psychology)
- Abdus Salam Afridi (Assistant Professor Psychology)
- Mudassar Abdullah (Assistant Professor Psychology)
- Maryum Yaqoob (Lecturer Psychology)
- Javaria Abid (Lecturer Psychology)
- Kainat Malik (Lecturer Psychology)
- Qandeel Saleem (Lecturer Psychology)
Curriculum of Psychology For BS (HONS.) 4-Year Program
First Semester | ||
Course Code | Course Title | Cr. hrs |
PSY 111 | Introduction to Psychology | 3 |
ASC 112 | English-I Compulsory | 3 |
IDC116 | Application of ICT | 3 |
PSY 114 | Statistics-I | 3 |
PSY 112 | Schools and Perspective in Psychology | 3 |
IDC114 | Biology | 3 |
| Total | 18 |
Second Semester | ||
ASC 121 | Communication Skills | 3 |
IDC126 | Pakistan Study | 2 |
GSQ111 | Fehm e Quran I | 1 |
PSY 124 | Theories of Personality-I | 3 |
PSY 125 | Statistics-II Minor | 3 |
PSY 122 | Experimental Psychology | 3 |
PSY121 | Behavior Neuroscience | 3 |
| Total | 18 |
Third Semester | ||
PSY231 | Introduction to social Psychology | 3 |
PSY 232 | Cognitive Psychology | 3 |
PSY 233 | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | 3 |
PSY 234 | Ethics in Psychology | 3 |
IDC235 | Introduction to Philosophy | 2 |
IDC236 | Islamic Studies | 2 |
IDC237 | Ideology and constitution of Pakistan | 2 |
| Total | 18 |
Fourth Semester | ||
PSY 241 | Psychological Testing | 3 |
PSY 242 | Developmental Psychology | 3 |
PSY 243 | Psychopathology | 3 |
PSY 244 | Environmental Psychology | 3 |
IDC245 | Criminology | 2 |
MGT246 | Entrepreneurship | 2 |
IDC247 | Civic and community engagement | 2 |
| Total | 18 |
Fifth Semester | ||
PSY 351 | Cross cultural Psychology | 3 |
PSY 352 | Psychology of Gender | 3 |
PSY 353 | Sports Psychology | 3 |
PSY 354 | Clinical Psychology | 3 |
IDC 355 | Interdisciplinary Courses-I | 3 |
GSQ211 | Fahm e Quran II | 1 |
| Total | 16 |
Sixth Semester | ||
PSY 361 | Positive Psychology | 3 |
PSY 362 | Counselling Psychology | 3 |
PSY 363 | Islamic Psychology | 3 |
PSY 364 | Practicum I | 3 |
IDC365 | Interdisciplinary Courses-II | 3 |
| Total | 15 |
Seventh Semester | ||
PSY 471 | Forensic Psychology | 3+1 |
PSY 475 | Practicum II | 3 |
PSY 473 | Disaster and Trauma Management | 3 |
IDC474 | Introduction to Anthropology | 3 |
IDC475 | Sustainable Development | 3 |
PSY476 | Internship | 3 |
| Total | 18 |
Eighth Semester | ||
PSY 481 | Psychology and emerging technologies | 3 |
PSY 482 | Peace Psychology | 3 |
PSY 483 | Cyber Psychology | 3 |
PSY484 | Educational Psychology | 3 |
PSY 485 | Research Project | 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| Grand total | 126 |