BSc. Psychology

PO1: Graduates will acquire basic theoretical knowledge and practical applications in different fields of psychology.
PO2: Graduates will have knowledge to analyse mental health needs of individuals with the help of theoretical knowledge and assessment tools and methods.
PO3: Enhance critical thinking of students to relate with current needs of the society in the area of mental Health.
PO4: Graduates will be equipped to use basic psychological evaluations in research and real life settings.
PO5: Enhance graduates’ psycho-social development towards personal, academic, and professional growth.
PO6: Our graduates will be sensitive to the mental health and social issues of various vulnerable groups in the community.

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MSc. Psychology

PO 1: Equip and enable the students through providing conceptual understanding of psychology.
PO 2: Fostering ability to engage in life-long learning, demonstrating empathetic social concern, contributing to the development of nation, by making sue of awareness gained on various issues.
PO 3: Enhancing the horizon of knowledge so as to enable the learners to carry out qualitative research and pursue academic or professional careers.
PO 4: Developing problem analysis skills and knowledge and applying the same in real life situation.
PO 5: Using research knowledge and aptitude acquired in the course of study for solving socially relevant problem.
PO 6: Professionalize psychology through providing and familiarizing the recent trends and advances in psychology.

BSc. Psychology

PSO 1: Acquiring conceptual precision and communication
PSO2: Developing skills in assessment
PSO3: Conducting research and problem solving
PSO4: Developing personal growth and social responsibility

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MSc. Psychology

PSO 1: Inculcate theoretical knowledge of psychological principles and experiments.
PSO 2: Imparting advanced knowledge and skills and provide awareness regarding the latest development in the field of psychology.
PSO 3: Acquisition of expertise in specialized fields like clinical psychology, educational psychology and industrial psychology.
PSO 4: Provide a sound knowledge about the psychometric tools and assessment.
PSO 5: Enable the students to administer and analyse the various psycho therapies and treatment methods.
PSO 6: Facilitating learner to pursue career in professional areas of psychology.
PSO 7: Develop a scientific attitude, knowledge about cognitive processes that govern human behaviour and be able to communicate the understanding in simple and scientific language.
PSO 8: Enhance the professional skill of the student.

BSc. Psychology

PY1CRT01 FOUNDATIONS AND METHODS OF PSYCHOLOGY

CO1: Understand how psychology was developed and became the field of science as we know it now.
CO2: Understand basic psychological processes like sensation & perception, states of consciousness and learning..
CO3. Students learn how complex is human mind and each individual is unique.
CO4: Apply the learnt information in the practical day today life.
CO5: Learn to analyze states of consciousness and can apply various techniques like meditation and mindfulness to improve their own and other’s consciousness.

PY1CMT02 BODY SYSTEMS AND BEHAVIOUR (COMPLEMENTARY I)

CO1: Students can understand physiological psychology and neuroscience, digestive system, sensory system and respiratory system..
CO2: Students would be able to identify various molecular factors that influence different anatomical and physiological aspects of neural physiology..
CO3: Students can understand structure of the human heart and its working..
CO4: Students can understand physiological basis for emotionality, hypothalamus and limbic system in emotionality.

PY1CMT03 BASIC STATISTICS- PAPER I (COMPLEMENTARY II)

CO1: Students are able to decide on an appropriate test that is to be used for the particular data in hand..
CO2: Students are aware of the importance of reliability and validity and hence able to choose or design questionnaires appropriately..
CO3 Students are able to apply the basic methods studied in limited research endeavors..

PY1CMT03 BASIC STATISTICS- PAPER I (COMPLEMENTARY II)

CO1: Introduce students to statistics, need and importance of statistics in psychology..
CO2: Students are able to set up and interpret data sets in charts, graphs and distributions in meaningful ways..
CO3: Students will understand different methods of sampling..
CO4: Students understand the concepts of central tendency, mean, median and mode- properties, merits and demerits.

PY2CRT04 BASIC COGNITIVE PROCESSES (CORE)

CO1: Understand higher mental processes like intelligence, thinking, motivation and emotion etc..
CO2: Understand different aspects and theories of learning. .
CO3: Able to explain correlates and determinants of one’s behaviour, judgement, reasoning, emotion, motivation, and personality. .
CO4: Equipped to explain why a person is motivated to behave in a particular way. .
CO5: Equipped to test intelligence quotient (IQ) and find out one’s level of intellectual functioning..
CO6: Able to apply the learnt things in the practical situations.

PY2CMT05 BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOUR (COMPLEMENTARY I)

CO1: Students will understand the principles, modern concept of gene and gene action, mutations and genetic disorders..
CO2: Students will understand the physiological basis of sexual behavior, hunger and thirst..
CO3: Students will understand physiology of stress, sleep and arousal..
CO4: The student would be able to describe basic brain imaging techniques in neurophysiology.

PY2CMT06 STATISTICAL TOOLS

CO1: Measures of dispersion-Range, quartile deviation, mean deviation, standard deviation-properties, merits and demerits, coefficient of variation.
CO2: Students will understand Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of Correlation, Scatter Diagram, Interpretation of Correlation Coefficient, Rank Correlation, Regression, Regression Equation, Identifying the Regression Lines.

PY3CRT07 LIVING IN THE SOCIAL WORLD (CORE)

CO1: Students will understand the psychological processes behind human behaviour in a social setting..
CO2: Learn fundamental concepts and principles involved in human social behaviour..
CO3: Describe and assess the basic psychological theories, principles, and concepts explaining social cognition..
CO4: Students can understand how human behavior is influenced by such social factors as groups, authority figures, in-group bias, gender roles, cognitive dissonance, etc..
CO5: Students will be able to predict the outcomes of various social situations through application of social psychology principles..

PY3CMT08 NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF BEHAVIOUR

CO1: Acquisition of knowledge regarding nervous system and communication within a neuron and neurotransmitter..
CO2: Students can understand different basic aspects of cell biology and molecular biology..
CO3: Students would be able to identify various molecular factors that influence different anatomical and physiological aspects of neural physiology.
CO4: Get an idea about the scope of molecular biology in unravelling the structural and functional mystery of nervous system..
CO5: Students will understand the Anatomy of the peripheral nervous system and the hemispheres of the neocortex..
CO6: Get an idea about different neural pathways of various senses.

PY3 P01 PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICALS-I

CO1: Students would be able to study psychological phenomenon using tests and experiments..
CO2: Students would be able to measure Psychological attributes such as attention, illusion, depth perception, memory, and learning. .
CO3: Students would be able to conduct and prepare reports on Psychological tests and experiments objectively.

PY4CRT10 SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

CO1: Students learn fundamental concepts and principles involved in human social behaviour.
CO2: Learn theories, and principles of social cognition, attitude formation, pro- social behaviour, aggression, conformity/obedience and stereotyping/prejudice etc..
CO3: Students learn how human behaviour is influenced by such social factors .
CO4: Predict the outcomes of various social situations through application of social psychology principles..
CO5: Students will make analysis and describe media reports on current issues, T V programmes, and films.

PY4CMT11 BIOPHYSIOLOGY OF BEHAVIOUR

CO1: Get insight into the immune system and psychoneuro-immunology.
CO2: Students understand the endocrine system and psychoneuro-endocrinology.
CO3: Students can understand mechanisms of learning and memory, brain chemistry, drugs and mental illness.
CO4: Enable students to apply principles and theories studied to analyze phenomena relating to physiological basis of psychological processes and sensory processing.

PY4CMT12 STATISTICAL INFERENCE

CO1: Students are able to decide on an appropriate test that is to be used for the particular data in hand.
CO2: Students are able to do testing of hypothesis, Large sample tests, and small sample tests.
CO3: Students are aware of the importance of reliability and validity and hence able to choose or design questionnaires appropriately.
CO4: Students are able to apply the basic methods studied in limited research endeavours.

PY4 P02 PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICALS-II

CO1: Students would be able to conduct psychological test for measuring attributes such as sensation and perception, Reaction time, learning, and motor ability.
CO2: Students would be able to interpret and write report on the psychological test results.

PY5CRT13 ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR

CO1: Understand the basic concepts in abnormal behaviour. CO2: Learn basic skills to identify the deviant behaviours. CO3: Familiarized with common mental disorders such as anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, mood disorders and schizophrenia and delusional disorder.
CO4: Students will learn the management of mental disorders in a scientific way.
CO5: Use the knowledge to conduct research in abnormal behaviour.

PY5CRT 14 FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

CO1: Students will learn what is organizational behaviour, how and why individual differences are important, and different organizational structures.
CO2: Students learn organizational theory and design.
CO3: Students will learn work motivation, communication in organization, team work, leadership in organization and group.

PY5CRT 15 ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

CO1:Students will learn multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies.
CO2: Students will learn natural resources such as forest resources, water resources, mineral resources, food resources, energy resources and land resources.
CO3: Learn structure and function of an ecosystem.
CO4: Learn causes, effects and control measures of environmental pollution.
CO5: Students will learn social issues and the environment like climate change, global warming and various acts and laws aimed at protecting the environment.
CO6: Students will learn conservation of natural resources and human rights. .

PY5OP1 – BASICS OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY (OPEN COURSE)

CO1: Students will learn basic concepts and principles of psychology, brief History of modern scientific psychology, and branches of psychology.
CO2: Students learn basic cognitive processes such as attention, learning, and memory.
CO3: Students will learn motivation and emotion.
CO4: Students learn basic concepts of counseling, counselling skills, phases of counselling, different types of counselling, core Conditions of Counseling and the scope of counselling.
CO5: Students learn different approaches to counselling, such as psychoanalytic (Freud) cognitive approach, behavioral Approach and person centered counselling.
CO6: Students will learn different counseling techniques like psychoanalytic techniques, behavioral modification, systematic desensitization, flooding, contingency management and REBT.

PY5OP2 LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

CO1: Students learn Concept of Life skill, communication and action skills.
CO2: Learn presentation skills planning, effective use of language and audio visual aids, managing performance anxiety, relaxation techniques, and skill to attend interviews and group discussions.
CO3: Learn relationship skills such as skills for developing intimacy, assertiveness skills, skills for anger management, coping with emotions and stress, attitude formation, and leadership skills.
CO4: Learn critical thinking skills, and conflict management skills.

PY5 P01 EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (PRACTICAL)

CO1: Students learn to administer experiments on memory, reaction time, transfer learning, and motor tests.
CO2: Students learn to make reports on the experiments.

PY6CRT16 PSYCHOLOGY OF MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR

CO1: Students learn different types of personality disorders, clinical features of personality disorders, causal factors in personality disorders, sexual variants and sexual abuse, and treatment of personality disorders.
CO2: Learn somatic, dissociative and stress disorders, causal factors, treatment and outcome.
CO3: Learn substance-related disorders, psychosocial and socio cultural causal factors, treatment and outcome.
CO4: Learn neurodevelopmental or disorders of childhood, causal factors, treatment and outcome.
CO5: Learn neurocognitive disorders, brain impairment in adults, clinical picture, treatment and outcomes.
CO6: Learn clinical assessment and diagnosis, the basic elements of assessment, types of assessment and neuropsychological examination.

PSY6 CRT17 MANAGING BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATION

CO1: Students learn nature of organizational decision making, process of decision making, techniques of decision making, and improving decision making process.
CO2: Students learn power conflict and negotiation in organization.
CO3: Students learn to managing Organizational change and development.
CO4: Students learn social responsibility and ethical practice in organization.

PY6CRT18 CHILD DEVELOPMENT

CO1: Students learn basic understanding of the initial researches done in the field of Developmental Psychology..
CO2: Students get an idea about the different stages of prenatal development..
CO3: Learn basic understanding regarding physical, cognitive and emotional development in the early stages of life..
CO4: Student learns to critically evaluate each persons development stages and pros and cons related to development..
CO5: Get an idea about theories in this field and their practical implications..

PY6CB01 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELLING

CO1:Students would be able to identify the application of psychological counselling in various settings..
CO2: Students learn counselling process, approaches and techniques of counselling..
CO3: Students would able to develop basic skills necessary for Psychological counselling..
CO4: Students would able to apply various theories and techniques used in psychological counselling..

PY6 P02 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT(PRACTICAL)

CO1: Students learn the basic principles of psychological testing; characteristics of psychological tests, ethical application of psychological tests..
CO2: Learn to conduct and report psychological testing on intelligence and cognitive skills such as SPM, Bhatia’s battery, Mathew mental abilities etc..
CO3: Learn to conduct and report personality such as EPQ, Big five inventory, Locus of control, type A/ B, 16 PF etc..
CO4: Learn to conduct and report tests of interests, aptitude, attitude, creativity, adjustment, values etc. .
CO5: Learn to conduct and report tests for children such as Seguin Form Board, VSMS, WISC (Indian), etc. can also be administered.

PY6 PR02 RESEARCH PROJECT

CO1:The Student would be able to identify research problems, carry out research and write report findings in the area of clinical psychology..
CO2: The Student would be publishing the research carried out in peer- reviewed journal.

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MSc. Psychology

PY010101 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

CO1: Students will learn the history, emergence and various schools of cognitive psychology.
CO2: Students will learn important empirical, theoretical and computational approach to cognitive processes.
CO3: Students will learn the mechanism of cognitive processes and its applications in daily life.
CO4: Learn classical experiments conducted by the prominent cognitive psychologists.

PY010102 PERSONALITY AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

CO1: Students will learn the critical stages of personality development analyze dynamics and inner motives of self and others.
CO2: Learn the psychodynamic perspective of personality.
CO3: Learn the learning and scocial cognitive/ learning perspective of personality.<
CO4: Learn the humanistic, existential, trait, cognitive and Eastern perspective of personality.
CO5: Learn the application of projective tests.

PY010103 CLINICAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

CO1: Students learn to make provisional diagnosis and psychopathology formulation of a case.
CO2: Learn Classificatory Systems and neurodevelopmental disorders.
CO3: Learn schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders.
CO4: Learn mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, and stress related and somatoform disorders, sexual disorders and personality disorders.
CO5: Learn substance related and neurocognitive disorders.

PY010104 PSYCHOMETRY

CO1. The student will be able to understand the nature and characteristics of measurement in psychology and distinguish between testing and assessment
CO2. The student will be able to choose appropriate data collection techniques in different assessment settings
CO3. The student will be able to construct an appropriate test for collecting data based on local demands
CO4. The student will be able to understand the different aspects to be taken into consideration for the standardization of a test.
CO5. The student will be able to carry out assessment considering ethical issues involved in psychological testing
CO6. The student will be able to use tests manually and using computers in research

PY010105 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT (PRACTICAL)

CO1: Students will learn the skill to assess various cognitive functions using appropriate psychological assessments.
CO2: Students will do journal presentations intended towards the development of analytical skills.
CO3: Students learn paper presentation development communication and presentation skills.
CO4: Students art to participate in debate/group discussions based on issues of social relevance.

PY010201 PSYCHOLOGY OF INTELLIGENCE, LEARNING, MOTIVATIONAND EMOTION

CO1: Student will learn different theories of learning, motivation, intelligence, and emotion.
CO2: Students will learn to apply emotion, learning and motivation concepts to explain personal experiences.
CO3: Student would acquire skills to analyze and apply knowledge of learning principles and motivational concepts to improve academic performance and communicate in simple language to school students.

PY010202 HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

CO1: Students will learn mind-body relationship, human immune functioning, relevance of healthy life style, role of coping mechanisms, stress management.
CO2: Students will learn management of pain, chronic and terminal illness.
CO3: Students will learn different psychophysiological disorders and its management
CO4: Students will be able to take up the role of Health Psychologist.

PY010203 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

CO1: Students will learn the definition, meaning and characteristics and elements of scientific research.
CO2: Learn experimental research design and non experimental designs.
CO3: Learn fundamentals of qualitative research.
CO4: Learn how to carry out data analysis, parametric tests and non-parametric tests, correlation and regression analysis.
CO5: Students will learn how to choose appropriate statistics how to make research proposals, design research and will learn report writing.

PY010204 POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

CO1: Students will be able to integrate and apply core concepts of positive psychology into their own lives and professional practice.
CO2: Students will learn Perspectives on Positive Psychology from Western and Eastern perspectives.
CO3: Learn Positive Psychology perspective across the lifespan.
CO4: Learn emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal approaches of Positive Psychology.
CO5: Learn how positive environments such as schools, workplaces contribute to personal and interpersonal development.

PY010205 FIELD WORK (PRACTICAL)

CO1: Students will learn different assessments in practical situation and do field work based on knowledge acquired from different courses.
CO2: Students will learn to administer personality tests such as ’16 Personality Factor Test’, Big 5 Factory Inventory, Maladjustment Inventory.
CO3: Learn ‘Emotional Intelligence inventory’, Beck’s Depression Inventory, State Trait Anxiety Inventory, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, and Global Adjustment Scale.
CO4: Learn Projective Tests such as (a) ‘Sentence Completion Test’, (b) Word Association Test, (c) Rozenweig’s Picture Frustration Test, (d) Thematic Apperception Test (e) Rorschach Ink Blot Test, (f) Projective Drawings

PY010301 NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

CO1: Students will learn the basic concepts of Neuropsycholgy.
CO2: Learn neuropsychological defects due to the disruption of higher cerebral functions.
CO3: Learn the functional aspects of frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes.
CO4: Students will learn to administer and make reports of different neuropsychological assessments tests such as PGIBBD, WCST, BGT, Stroop, MMSE, etc.
CO5: Learn to program neuropsychological rehabilitation for patients with neurological impairments.

PY010302 COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY

CO1: Students will learn the important concepts of counselling, scope, goals, types of counselling, ethics in Counselling, goals of Counselling, and Counsellor and Counselee Characteristics.
CO2: Students will learn major counselling skills.
CO3: Learn different approaches to counselling, such as Psychoanalytic, Person Centered, Adlerian, Psychodynamic, Existential, Adlerian, Cognitive, Trait, Behavioural and Egan’s Model of Counselling.
CO4: Students will learn Group Counselling.
CO5: Learn counselling Special Populations such as elderly and children with special needs, sex education and counselling, divorce, patients with HIV/AIDS, addiction counselling, and family
CO6: Learn suicide prevention and tele counselling.

PY010303 COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURALLY ORIENTED THERAPIES

CO1: Student will be able to carry out functional behaviour analysis.
CO2: Learn counter conditioning techniques such as Progressive Muscle relaxation, systematic desensitization, and self-control techniques
CO3: Learn different techniques of contingency management.
CO4: Learn elimination and extinction procedure such graduated extinction, implosive therapy, flooding, punishment and aversive procedures.
CO5: Learn Cognitive therapies like REBT, and Cognitive Learning Therapies (Beck).
CO6: Student will learn to recommend and apply suitable behaviour modification techniques for children and adult maladaptive behaviours.

PY800301 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT

CO1: Students will learn to conduct different types of interview and assessment.
CO2: Students will learn ethical practice of clinical psychology and assessment.
CO3: Students will learn to write psychological report.

PY010304 NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT (PRACTICAL)

CO1: Students will learn the skill and knowledge to evaluate patients with neurological problems.
CO2: Learn necessary evaluation measures for specific brain function.
CO3: Learn to administer and write report on different neuropsychological tests.
CO4: Learn to provided neuro rehabilitation based on findings of assessments.

PY010401 CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES AND ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN SOCIAL ENGINEERING

CO1: Student will learn psychological principles and methods to understand social issues and initiate techniques to change behaviour.
CO2: Students will learn different aspects of environmental issues, issues of migration, globalization and technology, gender issues, poverty, and human rights violations.
CO3: Student will be able to put social issues into a psychological perspective, communicate it in simple manner to others and suggest solutions for it.
CO4: Learn equip themselves to write reports in newspapers/ magazines/ electronic media on environmental issues and discussions conducted.

PY800402 PSYCHOTHERAPY

CO1: Students gain understanding regarding the basic features of psychotherapeutic setting and identify the appropriate mode of therapy to be used in clinical settings.
CO2: Learn different approaches and forms of psychotherapy.
CO3: Students will be equipped with the specific techniques used in each kind of therapy and work with eclectic or integrative approaches.

PY800403 SPECIALIZATIONS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

CO1: Students will learn about the areas where they can work as clinical psychologist.
CO2: Students will learn how to promote mental health and prevent mental illness.
CO3: Students will be aware of the laws related to mental health.

PY010403 INTERNSHIP AND CASE STUDY (PRACTICAL)

CO1: The student has to do the internship for a minimum of 200 hours by the end of the fourth semester.
CO2: This is to be done under the supervision of a teacher and the student has to submit a report on his activities in the institution/setting (clinical setting/ organization/ school setting etc.
CO3: The student should also learn to do case study and submit adequate individual cases of relevance as separate work.

PY010404 DISSERTATION (PROJECT)

CO1: The Student would be able to identify research problems, carry out research, do appropriate statistical analysis and write report findings in the area of clinical psychology.
CO2: The Student would be publishing the research carried out in research journals.