DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY STUDIES
SUBJECT SYNOPSES
BBS2001 Human Resource Management
This subject emphasises the role of line managers/supervisors in maximising organisational and employee performance through effective human resource management practices.
BBS2002 Recruitment & Human Resource Administration
This subject provides you with the knowledge and requisite skills to support the following major functions of human resource management: manpower planning, recruitment, selection, placement, orientation, employee communication, employee wellness, and computerised human resource information systems.
BBS2003 Management of Employee Relations
This subject exposes you to labour laws, the industrial relations framework of organisations and how to manage employee relations. You will also be introduced to a range of employee relations programmes and learn how these can contribute to organisational effectiveness.
BBS3001 Human Resource Development
This subject provides you with well-rounded knowledge in the field of human resource development. Topics such as training needs analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of training programmes, and career development will be covered.
BBS3002 Performance & Compensation Management
This subject provides information on the design and implementation of performance and compensation management systems. Topics will include performance appraisal, pay for performance, salary and incentives administration.
BBT1001 Computer Systems and Applications
This subject covers the fundamental concepts in the main hardware components of a computer system. It provides you with an understanding of how these components are set up and how they function together. Current IT trends, mainly in the areas of e-commerce and Internet applications, will be discussed within the core framework of data communications, networks and security issues. Basic theories will be supplemented with hands-on exposure to web page creation and designing, and spreadsheet application.
GCD1001/1002/1003 Applied Principles for Effective Living (APEL)
Applied Principles for Effective Living is TP’s Core programme consisting of three subjects, namely APEL 1 (Personal Effectiveness), APEL 2 (Interpersonal Effectiveness) and APEL 3 (Extropersonal Effectiveness). APEL was specially developed for TP students with the aim to help nurture in them the dispositions (i.e., attitudes, skills, knowledge) towards the Principles for Effective Living, hence laying the vital foundation for their lifelong success. The principles introduced in this programme are largely derived from applied psychological studies.
GCS1001 Fundamentals of Public Speaking
This subject aims to help students become confident speakers. It equips students with the techniques to develop, deliver and evaluate speeches appropriate to a variety of contexts, including both impromptu and prepared situations.
This subject aims to help students develop their skills and confidence in writing for academic contexts. It takes students through the stages of the writing process i.e. from the planning through the development and production of academic papers.
GCS3001 Professional Communication Skills
This subject aims to hone your communication skills. Topics covered will include handling interviews, meeting skills, interpersonal skills and formal writing skills required in various forms of professional and career writing such as project proposals, application letters, resumes and more.
GEC1001 Principles, Practices & Issues in Early Years Education
This subject provides an overview of early childhood care and education in Singapore. You will delve into the various approaches and models for early childhood care and education, as well as the social dynamics of learning in Singapore’s early childhood context. In addition, students will also consider appropriate practices within the early childhood context.
GEC1002 Early Years Character Education
This subject aims to help you encourage your potential students’ positive sense of themselves. You will learn to create lessons that develop young children’s inter-personal and intra-personal skills to become more resilient and effective learners.
GEC1003 Early Years Language & Literacy Skills
This subject aims to help you devise engaging lessons and activities in order to enhance the learning language acquisition amongst young children. You will learn to plan and facilitate lessons that sharpen young children’s listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
GEC1004 Early Years Numeracy Skills
This subject guides you in developing lessons and activities that build young children’s ability to think, count and express in numbers and quantitative terms.
GEC1005 Early Years Environmental Awareness
This subject helps you design lessons that assist young children to gain a better understanding of the physical and geographical world around them. You will learn to develop lessons that will build important process skills amongst young children through engaging activities.
GEC1006 Early Years Creative Expressions & Play
This subject aims to help you foster young children’s creativity through a rich learning environment in art, music, drama, dance, as well as activities involving motor-skills. You will learn to develop lessons to provide experiences that will cultivate expressiveness, creativity and imagination amongst young children.
GEC2001 Early Years Classroom Management
This subject aims to impart basic effective teaching strategies in managing and guiding children’s behaviour within the classroom. You will learn to apply these strategies for the delivery of successful lessons within a conducive learning environment.
GEC2002 Child Safety, Health & Nutrition
This subject aims to help you understand the early childhood educator’s crucial role in providing an environment for the care and safety of the children. You will learn to manage areas of young children’s nutrition, health, hygiene and safety. In addition, you will also be equipped with basic first aid skills and learn to understand as well as detect child abuse and neglect.
GEC2003 Family & Community Collaboration
This subject explores the dynamics of families and their role in the development of the child. The subject introduces strategies and resources to help strengthen relationships between home, community and centre/kindergarten.
GEC2004 Early Years Curriculum Integrated Project
This subject provides opportunities to craft and develop developmentally appropriate classroom activities compatible with the various developmental stages of young children. You will learn to create and prepare learning programmes, centres, resources to enhance early years learning.
GIP3001 Student Internship Programme (SIP)
This internship programme is a 10-week attachment to relevant organisations that will enable students to link and practice their learning with the real world. You will have opportunities to handle real problems and issues. This internship will give you practical training to apply the concepts and skills that you have acquired in the course of their study.
The major project is intended to complete your training by providing a real-world experience to integrate and apply your knowledge in a practical learning situation. Besides research, design and project management skills, the emphasis will also be on innovation, creativity, teamwork and enterprise.
GPS1001 & GPS1002 Foundation Psychology A & B
These two subjects, Foundation Psychology A and B, provides you with an overall perspective and understanding of psychology as a scientific study of mental processes and human behaviour. Fundamental concepts, theories and methodology in the study of general psychology will be explored to enhance your understanding of the biological and social bases of behaviour.
GPS1003 Cross-Cultural Psychology
This subject examines how cultural factors arising from different geographical, racial, ethnic and cultural groupings influence the psychological behaviour of individuals. You will also explore various cross-cultural factors and beliefs that influence cognition, personality, development, health and social interaction.
GPS1004 Industrial & Organisational Psychology
This subject provides you opportunities to apply psychological knowledge, research methods and intervention strategies into industrial and organisational settings. Topics include structure and function of organisations, selection and training, job analysis, performance appraisal, group behaviour, leadership, ergonomics and workplace safety.
GPS1005 Applied Psychology Integrated Project 1
Psychology not just a theoretical subject but has valuable practical applications to issues in the management of human affairs and the remediation of such problems. This subject allows you to explore the various fields in psychology and apply psychological knowledge in order to improve quality of life for the individual or organization in various applied settings.
GPS1006 Psychology of Workplace Safety and Health
This subject explores human perceptual, cognitive and behavioural issues that affect workplace safety and health. You will also apply theories and methods learnt to promote safety, health and well-being of individuals in the workplace and to enhance work environment in order to improve quality and productivity of work life.
GPS1007 Research Methods in Psychology A
This subject introduces statistical methods used to develop theories, principles and concepts in the field of psychology. You will build on skills and knowledge gained from Statistics for Social Sciences to apply concepts of inferential statistics as well as principles of research methodology into psychological experiments. Statistical software will be used to augment conceptual understanding and enhance practical experimental design and analysis skills.
GPS1009 Introduction to Counselling Psychology
This subject provides opportunities for you to explore the fundamentals of counselling as well as discuss the primary theoretical perspectives and contemporary issues that influence the counselling profession. You will be equipped with helping skills that you can actively apply into helping people around you.
GPS1011 Psychology of Food, Eating & Body Image
This subject explores modern society’s concern over physical appearance and the resultant effects of obsession with dieting, eating disorders, as well as body shape and size.
GPS1012 Educational Psychology
This subject provides an overview of psychological principles and the relationship with learning and thinking, instruction, effective teaching pedagogies and classroom management in order to facilitate an optimal environment for human growth and development.
GPS1013 Introduction to Psycholinguistics
This subject explores the relationship between language and the processes of the human brain and mind. You will explore psycholinguistic theories of language and processing, in order to learn how we acquire and comprehend language, as well as produce spoken speech
GPS2001 Research Methods in Psychology B
The subject addresses more complex research questions through a variety of research designs and statistical analysis techniques. With the use of statistical software, you will have opportunities to apply knowledge, skills and techniques to analyse and interpret data from simple and complex experiments.
GPS2002 Perception & Cognition
This subject explores two main thematic areas of human information processing, namely, perception and cognition. You will explore topics such as sensory perception, attention, learning and memory in order to enhance your understanding of how human beings perceive and process information.
GPS2003 Physiological Psychology
This subject explores relationships between physiological processes and behaviour, i.e., the examination of brain and behaviour relationships, with emphasis on the nervous system functioning, as well as the sensory systems.
GPS2004 Developmental & Lifespan Psychology
This subject examines theories and methodologies covered in developmental psychology. You will explore and gain a deeper understanding of how people change at each developmental phase as a result of interaction between innate factors and external experiences.
This subject explores major theories and research methods in social psychology. You will gain a deeper appreciation of how social conditions affect human behaviour and attitudes as well as how inter-personal, intra-personal and community interactions are affected.
This subject introduces you to the key principles of conditioning and motivation, and research in the psychology of learning. Topics include principles of conditioning such as classical and instrumental conditioning; approaches to learning, including acquisition of verbal materials, concepts, and motor skills; memory and transfer. Practical applications of these basic principles in various real-life scenarios will be explored.
This subject examines how biology, human behaviour and the social context impact our health and well-being. It will focus on how psychological principles are used to promote health and prevent illness. Using a biopsychosocial model of health and illness, you will learn how to take personal responsibility leading to better health, vigour and vitality, and self-respect.
GPS2012 Human Factors Psychology
This subject applies concepts about human perceptual and cognitive behaviour, abilities and limitations to enhance our understanding of human interaction with systems, technology and products in various applied settings and industries. Through practical applications, you will apply this knowledge to improve work performance and develop effective strategies in human-machine interfaces.
GPS2015 Psychology of Addictive Behaviours
This subject discusses the psychological and social aspects behind addictive habits. You will explore how and why an individual engages in physical addictions (e.g., alcohol and drugs) and psychologically compulsive behaviours (e.g., gambling).
This subject focuses on the major developmental issues related to the physical, cognitive and psycho-social development of a child. You will gain knowledge and understanding of why children think and behave the way they do, as well as apply theoretical understanding on nurturing the development of young children.
GPS3002 Assessment & Personality
This subject introduces the principles and techniques of psychological assessment. Underlying many psychological assessments is a theoretical position about personality. The subject examines how aspects of personality are theoretically operationalised and measured to enhance our understanding of relationships between personality theories and assessment. This hands-on subject provides opportunities to explore the application of tests in varied settings.
This subject explores concepts and issues surrounding abnormal behaviour and illnesses. You will explore major theories on how physiology, cognition, developmental, social and other issues influence behaviour. You will also be provided opportunities to explore assessment tools as well as gain and overview of intervention methodologies and techniques commonly used in maladaptive behaviours and psychological disorders.
GPS3004 Applied Psychology Integrated Project 2
Psychology is not just a theoretical subject but has valuable practical applications to issues in the management of human affairs and the remediation of such problems. This subject builds on skills and experience gained from earlier project work-related subjects such as Applied Psychology Integrated Project 1. More opportunities will be provided for you to explore the various fields in psychology and apply psychological knowledge in greater depth.
This subject examines the role of psychology in forensic. You will be introduced to theories & psychological perspectives leading to criminal behaviour. The subject also explores the role of a psychologist in dealing with such behaviour as well as the relationship between the legal system and psychology, the mental health system, mental illnesses and criminal conduct.
GPS3007 Psychology of the Exceptional Child
This subject focuses on individual differences in children. You will explore areas such as the emotional, social and learning characteristics of individuals who are exceptional, and gain a deeper understanding of the issues that impact the lives and behaviour of these individuals.
GST1001 Principles of Statistics
The use of empirical evidence and statistical analysis is crucial in the field of social sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology and education). This subject provides you with a basic understanding and use of statistical concepts in data analysis. Concepts such as descriptive and inferential statistics will be introduced.