BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN'S

M. M. College Of Arts, N. M. Institute Of Science, H. R. J. College Of Commerce

Bhavan’s College

(Autonomous 2020-30)

Established in 1946 | Re-accredited "A" Grade by NAAC | Munshi Nagar, Andheri (W), Mumbai - 400058

Department of Psychology

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The Department of Psychology has been offering the courses in Psychology under the Bachelor Of Arts Programme from the inception of the college in the year 1946. The courses at the TYBA level began to be offered as a double major with a combination with the other subjects including English, Hindi, Marathi, History and Philosophy from the year 2001 onwards. The department experienced a growth in leaps and bounds from the year 2020 after the college was awarded the Autonomous status. The department has started offering a major in Psychology/6 papers, MA in Clinical Psychology and several Certificate courses. A counselling centre manned by the staff of the department and the alumni offers services to the students and staff alike. The key attractions of the department are the state of art Laboratory, well equipped classrooms and a large and comprehensive collection of books and journals in the library that cover a wide range of topics in the discipline apart from the experienced and expert faculty members who make learning an enriching experience for the students.

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Objectives

  • To create a strong intellectual foundation in psychological science.
  • To equip the learner with the understanding and application of basic research methods andexperimental design principles.
  • To encourage the learner to respect and use critical and creative thinking, sceptical inquiry, and, the scientific approach to evaluate problems related to behavior and mental processes.
  • To facilitate the learner to observe a scientific temper, value empirical evidences, and reflect life values that are foundation of psychology as a science.
  • To inculcate the value of acting ethically and demonstrating an understanding and applying psychological principles to individual, social, and organizational issues.
  • To ensure an overall ,holistic personality development of the learner.

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YEAR SEMESTER COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE CREDITS
MA (PART-I) I BH.PAPHY101 Personality development 5
MA (PART-I) I BH.PAPHY102 Positive Psychology 5
MA (PART-I) I BH.PAPHY103 Cognitive Psychology 5
MA (PART-I) I BH.PAPHY104 RM And Statistics 5
MA (PART-I) I BH.PAPHY105 Practical 4
MA (PART-I) II BH.PAPHY201 Multiculturalism 5
MA (PART-I) II BH.PAPHY202 Evolutionary Psychology 5
MA (PART-I) II BH.PAPHY203 Health Psychology 5
MA (PART-I) II BH.PAPHY204 Statistics 5
MA(PART-1) II BH.PAPHY205 Practical 4
MA (PART-II) III BH.PAPHY301 Assessment In Clinical Psy- chology 5
MA (PART-II) III BH.PAPHY302 Psychopathology 5
MA (PART-II) III BH.PAPHY303 Psychotherapy 5
MA (PART-II) III BH.PAPHY304 Rehabilitation Psychology 5
MA (PART-II) III BH.PAPHY305 CBT & REBT 5
MA (PART-II) III BH.PAPHY306 Practical 5
MA (PART-II) IV BH.PAPHY401 Communication And Social Skills 5
MA (PART-II) IV BH.PAPHY402 Peace Psychology/ Forensic Psychology 5
MA (PART-II) IV BH.PAPHY403 Project 4
MA (PART-II) IV BH.PAPHY404 Internship 4

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Talk on ‘Cyber Psychology’ by Prof. Sandeep Sawalkar

OUR PSYCHOLOGY LAB

SYBA student Bhavika Agarwal completed the certificate course in Cognitive Psychology by Berkeley college, California with a stellar score of 99/100.

Celebrating Psychology week- Guest talk on ‘Careers in Special education’

Industrial visit to a state run Psychiatric hospital in Jaipur and Jaipur Literature fest

Poster Making competition held as part of the HighPsych festival

PO, PSO and CO of Revised Syllabus

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Disciplinary Knowledge & Cognitive skills: Capable of demonstrating comprehensive knowledge and understanding of one or more other disciplines that form a part of an undergraduate programme of study. Students choosing combination of three subjects develop social, political, historic, economic and literary consciousness and will be better able to appreciate different civilizations, culture At the end of the programme, they usually will have advanced reading, writing, speaking, interpretive and composition skills in both languages.

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Communication Skills: Ability to express thoughts and ideas effectively in writing and orally; communicate withothers using appropriate media; confidently share one’s views and express herself/ himself; demonstrate theability to listen carefully; and present complexinformation in a clear and concise manner to different groups.

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Effective Citizenship: Demonstrate empathetic social concern and equity centred national development, and the ability to act with an informed awareness of issues and participate in civic life through volunteering.

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Values and Ethical Awareness: Ability to embrace moral/ethical values in conducting one’s life, possess knowledge of the values and beliefs of multiple ultures and a global perspective; and capability to effectively engage in a multicultural society and interact respectfully with diverse groups.

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Employability: On graduating, the students will be eligible for employment in tourism, media, hospitality, and other industries. Students also become employable in non-governmental organizations.. They will also be able to appear for competitive examinations conducted for public sector jobs.

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Information and Digital Literacy: Capability to use ICT in avariety of learning situations. Demonstrate ability toaccess, evaluate and use a variety of relevant information sources
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Research related skills: A sense of inquiry and capability for asking relevant/ appropriate questions, problematizing, synthesizing and articulating; Ability to apply one’s learning to real life situations.

PSO A student completing a Bachelor's Degree in B.A. program in the subject of PSYCHOLOGY will be able to
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Develop an understanding of the basic concepts and theories in Psychology.

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Describe the scientific research methods and ethics in psychological research.

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Apply the reasoning and critical thinking in understanding the psychological processes in human interaction.

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Critically evaluate the various perspectives of behavior development.

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Demonstrate awareness about the individual biological, family related and global factors including economic, political, social, cultural ethical factor influencing human behaviour.

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Design research, collect data, analyse data and drawing logical conclusions, to develop understanding individual behavior in various context

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Apply the knowledge and skills in the discipline to develop awareness and sensitivity to issues faced by other individuals and to respond to them at a basic level

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Identify and compare various career or higher education options for a Psychology graduate

FYBA:

After the successful completion of the UNITS, the learner should be able to:

  • Describe the basic concepts and modern trends in Psychology.
  • Cite the contributions of the various psychologists in the history of Psychology.
  • Discover their area of interest in the subject of Psychology and plan careers in psychology.
  • Transfer the understanding related to the scientific research methods and ethics in Psychological research into a plan for a small scale research of their own.
  • Draw and label the structure of the neuron ,Brain and illustrate the functions of neurotransmitters ,endocrine glands and the parts of the brain.
  • Explain and contrast the various theories of learning .
  • Articulate the various models of memory and forgetting
  • Explain and compare the different approaches to understanding motivations.
  • Compare and contrast the theories of emotions .
  • Describe the various theories of personality and tools for assessment of personality .
  • Describe the concept of stress ,illustrate role of the factors leading to stress and the strategies useful to cope with stress.
  • explain the concepts related to statistical analysis of data and will be able to calculate the measures of central tendency ,Standard deviation and the Z scores.

SYBA: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:

PAPER II After the successful completion of the UNITS , the learner should be able to:

  • Describe the basic concepts and modern trends in Social Psychology.
  • Explain the various research methods used to study social Psychology.
  • Transfer the understanding related to the scientific research methods and ethics in Psychological research into a plan for a small scale research of their own.
  • Explain and contrast the various concepts and theories related to social Perception of learning .
  • Articulate the various the development of attitudes and persuasion.
  • Illustrate various theories and research related to liking,love ad other close relationships.
  • Discover their area of interest in the subject of social Psychology and plan career in social psychology.
  • Explain and compare the different approaches to understanding causes ,cures of Prejudice, Stereotypes and Discrimination.
  • Compare and contrast the theories of aggression and explain techniques useful in controlling it .
  • Describe the various theories and explain the causes of prosocial behaviour.
  • Describe the social factors in stress ,illustrate role of the factors leading to stress and the strategies useful to cope with stress

PAPER III: LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAfter the successful completion of the UNITS , the learner should be able to:

  • Describe the basic concepts in life span development.
  • Cite the changes taking place in the physical ,cognitive ,social and personality changes taking place during the adolescence.
  • TExplain the changes taking place in the early adulthood stage.
  • Discover their area of interest in the subject of Developmental Psychology and plan careers in the discipline.
  • Explain and compare the different approaches understanding physical and cognitive changes taking place in middle adulthood and late adulthood .
  • Compare and contrast the theories and research about the changes in social and personality during middle and late adulthood.

TYBA: PAPER IV: PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND STATISTICS.

After the successful completion of the UNITS, the learner should be able to:

  • Describe the basic concepts in Psychological Testing and Statistics.
  • Explain the concepts of reliability and validity.
  • Explain the concepts related to psychological testing and assessment.
  • Articulate the various types of assessments.
  • Transfer the understanding related to the different psychological tests in Psychological research into a plan for a small scale research of their own.
  • Discover their area of interest in the subject of Psychometrics and statistical analysis in Psychology .
  • Explain the different approaches to understanding Intelligence and assessment of intelligence..
  • Describe the concepts the personality assessment methods.
  • compute measures of variability and correlation given data.
  • Review the personality and intelligence tests and explain the steps in development of a psychological test.

TYBA: PAPER V: ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY:

  • Explain the basic concepts in abnormal psychology.
  • Describe the assessment tools and their use for diagnosis.
  • Explain the theories of abnormality .
  • Describe the anxiety, dissociative and somatoform disorders and apply the knowledge about the criteria to diagnose and design a short therapy .
  • Explain the criteria’s of diagnosing the mood disorders, Schizophrenia ,personality disorders and the sexual dysfunctions..
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the treatment of mood disorders, Schizophrenia, personality disorders and the sexual dysfunctions .
  • Explain the theories of mood disorders, Schizophrenia ,personality disorders and the sexual dysfunctions
  • Design treatment plan for the simulated cases or movie characters depicting particular disorders.

TYBA: PAPER VI INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY:

  • Describe the basic concepts and modern trends in of Industrial and organizational psychology.
  • Transfer the understanding related to various approaches to job analysis ,performance appraisal and training and to plan for a small scale research of their own.
  • Discover their area of interest in the subject of of Industrial and organizational psychology and plan careers in of Industrial and organizational psychology.
  • Explain the various theories of motivation
  • Describe,compare and contrast the theories of leadership
  • Explain the theories of job satisfaction and measurement of the same.
  • Design treatment plan for the simulated cases of organization change and development, assess the job satisfaction or motivation ,among a small sample and prepare a report

TYBA: PAPER VII : COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY.:

  • Describe the basic concepts in cognitive Psychology.
  • Explain the various theories of perception
  • Explain the concepts related to sensory memory,short term memory and working memory
  • Articulate the various models of long term memory.
  • Transfer the understanding related to the different in Psychological research into a plan for a small scale research of their own.
  • Discover their area of interest in the subject of cognitive Psychology .
  • Explain and compare the different approaches to understanding Storing and Organizing Information in Long-Term Memory.
  • Describe the concepts Visual Imagery and Spatial Cognition.
  • Explain the basic concepts in Thinking and Problem Solving.
  • Describe the concept of Reasoning and Decision Making

TYBA: PAPER VIII : PRACTICALS IN COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

  • Explain the basic concepts in experimentation and report writing.
  • Administer ,score and interpret the results obtained on a Psychological Test.
  • Conduct the cog lab experiment and write a report .
  • Design a research proposal and write a report.
  • Explain the basic concepts in experimentation and report writing.
  • Administer ,score and interpret the results obtained on a Psychological Test.
  • Conduct the cog lab experiment and write a report .
  • Design a research proposal and write a report.

TYBA: PAPER IX : COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY:

  • Describe the basic concepts and modern trends in counselling Psychology.
  • Discover their area of interest in the subject of Psychology and plan careers in ounselling psychology.
  • Transfer the understanding related to various approaches to counselling and to plan for a small scale research of their own.
  • Explain the Testing, Assessment, Diagnosis in Counseling; Closing Counseling Relationships
  • Compare and contrast Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, and Humanistic Theories of Counseling
  • Compare and contrast Behavioral, Cognitive, Systemic, Brief, and Crisis Theories of Counseling
  • Explain the basic concepts in Group Counseling and Current trends in Counseling

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M. M. College of Arts,
N. M. Institute of Science,
H. R. J. College of Commerce
Bhavan’s College
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Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400058

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