Bachelor of Science in Psychology

This course examines the different theories explaining human personality. It integrates theory and current research evidence on personality as well as cover the theories of Filipino personhood.

This course serves as a foundation on how to critically analyze existing realities within the lens of Psychology by examining various perspectives in psychological inquiry.

This course employs a multidisciplinary approach in the study of developmental changes across the life span of an individual. It likewise examines the various factors that contribute to those changes in each stage of the life cycle and how these changes affect human behavior.

This course examines the concepts and theories in cognitive and behavioral psychology, particularly the key frameworks in understanding mental processes and learning. From these bases, the course will explore themes on recent and groundbreaking researches in and applications of cognitive and behavioral psychology.

This course introduces the student to the basic concepts and methods of inferential statistics and their use in the design, analysis, and interpretation of psychological studies.

This course is designed to provide students with the relevant frameworks on the biological bases of human behavior.

The course is designed to introduce the students to the growing field of Industrial Psychology: its development and application of principles governing the different facets of human resources. It describes work organization, the workers, and their distinct and common goals. Special emphasis is given to both the science and the practice of the discipline relating this to the Philippine setting.

This course aims to introduce the students to the theoretical and methodological bases of scientific research, particularly the psychological experiments. Students will be trained to design, conduct, analyze, and evaluate experiments. They will also be taught to write psychological experiment reports.

This course covers the basic principles of testing and measurement. Students will learn the process of designing and developing tests, and constructing scales for use in education, research, and psychological assessment.

This course is a study of psychopathology and behavioral disturbance in the context of Clinical Psychology and updated DSM-5 classification systems. This course integrates local and cross-cultural contexts of mental health as well as health psychology.

This course provides a comprehensive survey of the foundations and major topics related to culture and psychology. In connection to the disciplinal underpinnings of cultural and indigenous psychology, Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino Psychology) is thus studied in greater detail as the exemplar of Cultural and Indigenous Psychology in the Philippines and in Asia.

This course involves the design and implementation of field research, including observational methods, ethnographies, focus group discussions, grounded theory methods, phenomenological, interpretive phenomenological analysis, multiple case studies and program evaluation. Students will be trained to collect and analyze observational data, interview data and survey data.

Social Psychology is the scientific study of human social behavior: how and why we think and feel, and behave and relate to one another in social situations. This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic theories, concepts, and empirical findings, which guide social psychologists in studying and understanding social behavior. The course intends to ground the students in the Filipino context by focusing on pertinent issues that confront them in their daily lives. Moreover, it aims to equip the students with a social psychological perspective in the analysis of current social issues and phenomena with an end to stimulating their interest in further studying these issues and phenomena, thus becoming generative in terms of research and advocacy.

This course is designed to introduce students to the field of psychological assessment, wherein they will learn the basic assumptions of psychological assessment and the ethical considerations in the field. They will also be familiarized with the application of psychological assessment in various contexts. The course is also meant to prepare the students in their practice as future psychometricians as they become acquainted with the various processes involved in conducting psychological assessment—test administration, scoring, interpretation, psychological report-writing, and feedbacking.

This course is a study of the scientific methods of psychological investigation, focusing on the techniques of problem identification, hypothesis formulation, and the construction of a research design and data-gathering instruments. The preparation of a research proposal is integral to the course, and this must be orally defended before a panel.

This course gives an overview on the study and practice of the principles and interventions used in psychotherapy. It also focuses on the theoretical approaches, an understanding of the psychotherapeutic process, application of basic skills and techniques to different situations and an awareness of the different issues that may affect the psychotherapeutic process.

This course focuses on demonstrating and applying the nature of SHRM and competency-based HR systems. Students are expected to be able to: identify and write competencies and apply these in talent acquisition, learning, and development, performance and rewards management, employee relations and organization development. Students are also expected to learn skills in recruitment and selection, training administration, and rewards management. (Lifted on CHED memo)

This course introduces students to the theories, concepts, empirical studies, processes, and models pertinent to groups. Students’ understanding of how individuals interact in groups is facilitated through a variety of methodologies that enhance their understanding and building their sensitivity to group processes and behavior. Through this course, students develop skills in group facilitation, process observation and analysis.

This course is designed to recapitulate and integrate everything that the students have learned from the psychology subjects they have taken over the course of the four years, as preparation for their future career as psychometricians. This also serves as a synthesis of knowledge they have acquired in-class together with learnings gathered from their real life and practicum experiences. At the end of the course, the students have further enhanced their abilities and skills, making them ready for life after graduation.

• Family Psychology
• Positive Psychology,
• Health Psychology
• Educational Psychology
• Environmental Psychology

• General Zoology
• General Botany
• Organic Chemistry
• Biophysics
• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Human Anatomy and Physiology
• Biochemistry
• General Microbiology