Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)

Our bachelor of psychology (hons) programme is designed to produce professionally focused and psychologically oriented psychologists who are prepared to address intellectual, emotional, social and psychological needs of individuals. Graduates of this programme are prepared to coordinate the resources of the workplace and the community in order to meet the needs of clients. 

It also helps them to acquire the knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviours needed of psychologist.

At UNITAR, students will be trained in FOUR aspects: theoretical, RESEARCH, industry-based project AND internship training.

• Experienced academicians with comprehensive industry knowledge.
• Embedded ‘Industry based project’ and ‘classroom-industry’ learning concept.
• Programme comes with a 6-month internship component that helps to bridge the gap between graduates and the industry in the real world.

Discipline Core Modules

• Introduction to Psychology
• Professional Ethics and Conduct in Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Theory of Personality
• Motivation and Emotion
• Abnormal Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Behaviour Modification
• Fundamentals of Guidance and Counselling
• Introduction to Industrial and Organisational Psychology
• Statistics for Social Sciences
• Psychological Testing and Evaluation
• Psychology of Learning
• Hubungan Etnik / Pengajian Malaysia 3(Int)
• TITAS / Bahasa Melayu Komunikasi 2 (Int)
• Design Thinking / Bahasa Kebangsaan A
• Entrepreneurship
• Recreational Event Planning
• Introduction to Positive Psychology
• Sociology of Deviance
• Managing Child Behaviour
• Research Methods
• Social Psychology
• Introduction to Physiological Psychology
• Elective I
• Elective II
• Elective III
• Elective IV
• Project Paper
• Internship

University Core Modules

• English for Academic Purposes
• Business Communication

MPU Modules

• Falsafah dan Isu Semasa / Philosophy and Current Issues (Int)
• Penghayatan Etika dan Peradaban / Bahasa Melayu Komunikasi 2 (Int)
• Design Thinking / Bahasa Kebangsaan A
• Entrepreneurship
• Recreational Event Planning

Common Core Courses

• Interpersonal and Communication Skills for Social Sciences
• English for Academic Purposes
• Business Communication
• Psychosociology for Social Sciences

Electives

• Principles of Management
• Organizational Behaviour
• Human Resource Management
• Introduction to Learning Disabilities
• Social Psychology of New Media
• Intercultural Communication
• Social and Emotional Development of Young Children
• Fundamentals of Group Work
• Theories of Counselling

Career Prospects

• Human Resource Personnel
• Psychology Officer
• Social Work Officer
• Welfare And Rehabilitation Officer
• Public Relations Officer
• Motivator
• Administrative Officer
• Researcher

The Programme Learning Outcomes (PLO) of this programme is to prepare graduates who are able to:

• Lifespan development, child psychology, adolescent psychology, and psychology of adulthood and ageing.
• Memory, thinking and intelligence, learning, as well as language and perception.
• Personality, motivation and emotions, abnormal psychology, intelligence, as well as test measurement.
• Social psychology, disability issues, and cross-cultural psychology.
• History and systems in psychology, and ethics in psychology.
• Introduction to industrial and organisational psychology, health psychology, counselling psychology, and educational psychology.