GE2129Psychology for Young Professionals

What you will study

Course overview

This course aims to prepare students for entering their professional world with knowledge of psychology and competence in understanding and dealing with people. Through this course, students will learn to apply psychology knowledge to describe and explain everyday human behaviours in general and work-related behaviours in specific. In addition, this course will guide students from various disciplines, including sciences, business, and humanities, to relate psychology to their own disciplines, leading to the development of cross-discipline competence.

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Course content

Module One: Managing yourself. Personality and competence. Motivation and satisfaction in work and life. Emotion, stress, and coping. Thinking, decision making, and problem solving. Module Two: Working well with people. Social behaviours. Situational influences of behaviors. The cultural mind. Human diversity and racial conflicts. Module Three: Adapting well to the modern world. Learning and behavioral changes. Attention, perception, and design of environment. Mental processing and human-machine interactions.

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Intended learning outcomes

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CILOs                                              Weighting (if DEC-A1          DEC-A2          DEC-A3
                                                                  app.)
1              Apply psychology knowledge to describe and         70              x             x
               explain personal experiences and everyday
               observations which are relevant to professional
               development.
2              Synthesize psychology knowledge with their         30                            x               x
               own discipline knowledge.

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Before you take this course

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Prerequisites

Nil

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Precursors

Nil

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Corequisites

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Additional course requirements

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Equivalent courses and conditions

GE2203 Psychology for Young Professionals

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Exclusive courses and conditions

SS2613 Psychology for Young Professionals

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Assessment and passing the course

Assessment

Continuous Assessment (%): 100; Examination (%): 0

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ATs                   CILO No.           Weighting (%)   Remarks ("-" for   Allow Use of
                                                                               nil entry)         GenAI?
1                     Quizzes: There       1                   60              -                  No
                      will be two in-class
                      quizzes (typically
                      upon completion
                      of second and
                      third modules,
                      depending on the
                      time schedule of
                      each semester) to
                      assess students’
                      learning in this
                      course.

2                       Poster and booklet: 2                  40                   Only allow AI to      Yes
                        Students are                                                brainstorm initial
                        required to present                                         ideas for
                        their posters and                                           Poster 10%,
                        booklets to the                                             Booklet 20%,
                        class at the end                                            Presentation 10%
                        of the course.
                        Assessment will
                        be based on their
                        oral in-class poster
                        presentation, as
                        well as the content
                        and organization
                        of the printed
                        booklet, with
                        reference to
                        cross-discipline
                        synthesis.

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Passing requirements

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