Syllabus for

Academic Year  (2022)

The Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore runs a range of programs that include Certificate courses, Interdisciplinary courses, and Undergraduate programmes. Through these programmes students are encouraged to consider careers and missions that integrate an understanding of life. The programmes integrate scholarship with professional practice and offer courses that are cutting edge in social science and management. It is a goal that students who complete these programs demonstrate high degrees of self-awareness, service orientation and are encouraged to embrace humane values in their vocation.

The department realizes its vision to promote high academic standards through a continuous and dynamic curriculum review process based on feedback from peers, professionals, potential employers, and students. A variety of student-centered teaching and training pedagogies are practiced by the faculty members. Prominent among them is the use of seminars, experiential methodologies, laboratory training, conferences, workshops, field-based studies, and film-based discussions and interactions with field experts.

Vision: Department of Psychology is dedicated to the motto of ‘Reflect and Realize’. We encourage the individuals to reflect on their core strengths and aid in realizing their true potentials. 

Mission: The Department of Psychology strives to be a home that nurtures individuals who are agents of change, ardent advocates of mental health, and inquirers of knowledge.

The B.Sc. Psychology Honors program offered by CHRIST (Deemed to be University) is an initiative to meet the increasing demand for psychological understanding and application in diverse fields. Drawing upon the recommendations of the American Psychological Association, the British Psychological Society, and the University Grants Commission, this program integrates both natural sciences and social sciences disciplines, requiring students to take courses from these two broad disciplines. The course structure is designed to enable students to think critically and creatively and investigate how human beings interact with the environment through the modalities of Mind, Body, and Behaviour. To this end, courses are offered from disciplines such as Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, and Social Sciences.

Programme Outcome/Programme Learning Goals/Programme Learning Outcome:

PO2: Apply domain knowledge for sculpting career progression.

PO3: Synthesize their understanding through self-learning and research.

PO4: Recognize the significance of interdisciplinary inquiry.

PO5: Analyze and enhance their personal abilities.

PO6: Promote teamwork and leadership skills.

PO7: Demonstrate effective communication for scholastic and co-scholastic activities.

• Written Examinations consists of: 

• Mid Semester Exam – 50 marks   (2 hours duration)

• End Semester Exam – 100 marks (3 hours duration)

• A student should have secured minimum 40% marks in the ESE to pass in that paper. 

• In aggregate for each paper, for internal and end semester put together, at least 40 marks out of 100 must be secured to pass in that paper.

Question Bank:

Subject wise Question Bank is prepared every semester to test the Conceptual, Application, Analytical and Problem solving skills of the students. These question banks are prepared by the faculty member teaching the subject and duly verified by the subject expert.

Question Paper Pattern for the End Semester Examination:

The question paper pattern for the End Semester Examination is as follows: 

• Section A

Conceptual / Descriptive Type questions 6 out of 8 questions of 2 mark each.

• Section B

Analytical / Essay type questions with choice – 5 out of 7 questions of 5 marks each

• Section C

Analytical/ Essay type questions with choice – 3 out of 5 questions of 15 marks each

• Section D 

One Compulsory Question – 18 marks

CIA – 1  and 3 : Continuous Internal Assessment

Written (reports) – Group or Individual, Understanding of the subjects, Participative learning, Presentation and VIVA, Quiz, Multiple choice based test etc.

CIA – 2:  Continuous Internal Assessment - Mid Semester Exam 

Mid Semester Exam marks will be taken for Internal Assessment. MSE marks will be reduced to 25 for this purpose. The question paper pattern for the Mid Semester Examination is as follows: 

Attendance:

The marks distribution for attendance is as follows:

95 – 100%-5 marks

90 – 94%-4 marks

85 – 89%-3 marks

80 – 84%-2 marks

76 – 79%-1 mark

The Department of Professional Studies was established in the year 2002 as Centre for Career Advancement (CCA), and later upgraded to Department of Professional Studies in 2007.The department offers some of the most unique and specialized programmes in the field of commerce and management. The Department also supports the M.Sc Actuarial Science programme for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

The undergraduate programmes of the department are benchmarked with international professional bodies through a meticulous mapping of the curriculum and innovative evaluation patterns. The department also aims at professional training for wider career opportunities. This is achieved through student centric value addition courses like Discipline Specific Electives that augment core competencies for CS, Insurance and CA and Employability skill enhancement certifications like Six Sigma, Advanced Excel and Portfolio Management.  These additional courses along with academic degrees equip the students to meet the challenges and prospects of contemporary academia and the corporate sector enabling differential placements.

All courses of the department are conducted by a dedicated team of academicians and highly qualified practicing professionals. To foster holistic development regular Soft Skills development sessions are a compulsory component of every programme of the department and are designed to make the students excel in soft skills, team work, communication, public speaking, debates and general knowledge.

Vision: To develop into a Centre of Excellence in Education, Training and Research in the field of Commerce and Management

Mission: To impart holistic education through state-of-the-art technology with the aim of producing professionals in the field of commerce and management, and also to launch new programmes to bridge the gap between academia and the corporate sector by meeting stakeholder requirements.

BBA (Finance and Accountancy) programme is designed for students who aspire to be strategic business leaders, new generation entrepreneurs and job creators with financial and entrepreneurial expertise to perform key roles as financial analysts and enterprise venture specialists with a vision for sustainable and inclusive growth at a global level. 

The Course is finalized in collaboration (MoU) with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the pioneer institution in UK with 147,000 members and over 424,000 student’s world over. BBA (F&A) is the first of its kind where ACCA is making a substantial exemption for its qualification with an Indian University programme.

Programme Outcome/Programme Learning Goals/Programme Learning Outcome:

PO2: To develop knowledge and skills in understanding and applying accounting standards, preparation and interpretation of financial statements of entities

PO3: To develop knowledge and skills required to work effectively in the global financial arena with expertise in investment, financing and decision making

PO4: To develop knowledge and understanding of audit and assurance engagement and its application in professional environment

PO5: To provide entrepreneurial expertise in terms of conception, design, organisation and management of new enterprises