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Introduction
The relationship between psychology and human resource management is becoming increasingly important to employers. Employers have seen the importance of employee’s commitment, reliability, motivation and performance as being influenced by psychological factors.
If you intend to pursue a psychology or if you are presently involved in human resource management, this programme is specially designed for you.
About the Programmme
The programme is designed to introduce key psychological and human resource concepts and ideas. This programme is expected to prepare students to enter the field of Psychology and Human Resources and will seek to enhance their capacity in an existing career. The study of Human Resource Management looks at the psychological contract in terms of what employees want and expect from each other. This programme is geared to produce a cadre of Caribbean persons who will have an appreciation of the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline of psychology as well as a strong understanding of the strategies and best practices used in human resource management to shape behavior in the workplace.
Who is this programme for?
The programme targets persons who work in the fields of psychology, human resource management, counselling, educational administration, youth development, social welfare, as well as any other persons who are interested in entering a career in public, private or not-for-profit organisations in the areas of psychology and human resource management.
Programme Structure
Duration of Programme
The programme will be offered over 3 years (full-time) and 5 years (part-time).
Award of Degree
In order to be awarded the BSc Psychology with Human Resource Management degree, students must successfully complete 90 credits with at least 30 credits at Levels II and III for the Major and at least 15 credits at Levels II and III for the Minor.
Delivery Mode
All courses will be delivered fully online. However, some courses may have face-to-face final examinations.
When will the programme start?
August of each academic year.
Entry Requirements
Applicants must meet the University’s normal matriculation requirements in order to be accepted into the programme. They must satisfy the requirements in either (a), (b), (c) or (d) below:
(a) Holders with CXC/CSEC and CAPE/GCE A Level qualifications having:
An acceptable pass in CXC/CSEC English A or CAPE Communications Studies; AND
An acceptable pass in CXC/CSEC Mathematics or its equivalent; AND
One of the following minimum qualifications:
either five subjects (at least two GCE A Level or CAPE) and the remainder acceptable passes in CXC/CSEC or GCE O’ Level; OR
four subjects (at least three GCE A Level or CAPE) and the fourth an acceptable pass in the CXC/CSEC or GCE O’ Level
Note: Grade requirements for CXC/CSEC subjects are General Proficiency - Grades I or II prior to June 1998 and Grades I, II, or III from June 1998
(b) Holders of five (5) CXC/CSEC or GCE O’ Level passes or equivalent, not necessarily obtained at the same sitting
(c) Entrants with a Diploma, Certificate or Associate Degree from UWI or an approved Caribbean tertiary level institution
(d)
Persons over the age of 21 who have been out of school for at least five years, on the basis of their overall academic and professional attainments
English Language Proficiency Examination
The English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT) is used to assess whether persons applying to pursue
undergraduate degree programmes at the UWI Open Campus possess a satisfactory level of writing
and reading proficiency in English for university academic purposes. For detailed information on the
ELPT, see English Language Proficiency Test.
Course of Study
Assessment:
Coursework - 60%, Final Exam - 40% (face-to-face)
Political Science students are asked to take this course in semester 2.
The summer offering will depend on the students’ registration number.
The course is designed to introduce learners to the major aspects of management principles. It will expose them to the corpus of knowledge required to assist an organisation to achieve its objectives. It provides important information intended to expose learners to the intricacies of managing enterprises - be these private or public, corporate or small business enterprises, and government or nongovernmental organisations.
Assessment:
Coursework - 25%
Final Exam -75% (face-to-face)
This course will introduce students to classical social theory through an understanding of the work of writers such as Auguste Comte, Max Weber, Karl Marx and George H. Mead. The main focus of this studying is to understand the central ideas of these writers and to reflect on the usefulness of their theory in contemporary Caribbean societies. This reflection will support students’ further investigations of the explanations given for issues on the front line of Caribbean societies’ development agendas. At the same time, students will learn about the central ideas and perspectives of writers such as Edward Kamau Brathwaite, M.G. Smith and George Beckford. The combination of classical and Caribbean schools of social inquiry will set the tone for a synthesizing of perspectives on race, class, gender, ethnicity and the family in society. This process will assist students with developing their theoretical base in social theory, as well as independent thought on happenings in Caribbean society.
Assessment: 100% Continuous Assessment.
This course provides a solid grounding in cognitive psychology, extending on the material presented in the Introduction to Psychology Course in Level 1. It highlights major areas in cognitive psychology including attention, intelligence, judgment and decision-making, learning and memory. Cognitive Psychology is one of the core pillars of general content in the discipline of psychology. The core pillars include Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social & Personality Psychology, and Mental & Physical Health. Students will also be introduced to the methods used in biological psychology and the neurosciences. Biological Psychology is one of the core pillars of general content in the discipline of psychology. The core pillars include Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social & Personality Psychology, and Mental & Physical Health.
This course will examine ideas of influential philosophers and schools of thought, and highlight the foundations on which the broad discipline of contemporary psychology is based. To expose students to the history of psychology and its relationship to psychiatry, providing an important foundation on which to understand contemporary psychology.
This course provides a solid grounding in modern biological psychology, extending on the material presented in the Introduction to Psychology Course in Level 1. It highlights the relationship between cognition, emotion, sensation and perception, and brain structure and function. Students will also be introduced to the methods used in biological psychology and the neurosciences. Biological Psychology is one of the core pillars of general content in the discipline of psychology. The core pillars include Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social & Personality Psychology, and Mental & Physical Health.
This course provides a solid grounding in classic and current Social & Personality Psychology, extending on the material presented in the Introduction to Psychology Course in Level 1. It highlights the social aspects of psychology including social development and relationships, theory of mind, social cognition, persuasion, attraction, conformity and obedience. Social & Personality Psychology is one of the core pillars of general content in the discipline of psychology. The core pillars include Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social & Personality Psychology, and Mental & Physical Health.
This is a Level 2 course. It covers the concepts, principles, objectives and practical applications of sustainability and sustainable development from an environmental, social, economic, corporate and political perspective. There is a natural environmental orientation to an overarching course of this nature, however, it seeks throughout to identify and analyze relationships between environmental sustainability and socio-economic factors, most centrally, the relationship between resource consumption (individual and collective) and sustainable livelihoods. The course examines, inter alia, the origins of sustainability, sustainability concepts, terms, standards and indicators, economic activity/output and sustainability, the role of industry and issue of waste, the issues of energy, water and clean air; environmental issues, political implications and decision-making and discourse/policy trends in energy, resource use, pollution, climate change and water; the three ‘E’s’ – environment, economics and equity; the environmental-social nexus – current and future resource availability and constraints, livelihoods and policy-making; sustainability in the business world – resource allocation, investment, stakeholders, shareholders, public and/v private-sector actors, the role of NGOs, multilaterals, bilaterals. The course also examines the global political economy of sustainability: individual versus collective state action, the tragedy of the commons, sustainable development, rights, obligations, sacrifices, opportunity costs as viewed by the developed and developing world.
This course extends on the introductory and intermediate courses completed in Levels 1 and 2, respectively. It is the first course presented as a specialization in the Psychology programme. This course covers the design of experiments in psychology and appropriate statistical methods to analyse the data. This course will include training in analysis of variance, regression analysis, factor analysis and more advanced statistical methods employed in psychology such as path modelling.
Students will be introduced to an eclectic mix of topics including ‘the upside of being down’ and ‘the psychology of eating animals’. The course highlights the integrative nature of contemporary psychology and introduces students to different ways in which psychological theory can be applied in the real world. This course also adopts a more ‘hands-on’, student-centred approach to teaching psychology by focusing group-based activities around recently published research in the Current Directions in Psychological Science journal.
This course is designed to give you an understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects relating to how organizations in the public and private sectors operate in an environment where it is critical to develop and implement strategies in order to gain and or maintain competitive advantage. The course requires also that you reflect on the knowledge gained from previous courses. Some of the major concepts that will be covered include, SWOT analysis, vision and mission, competitive analysis, corporate, competitive and global strategies, value chain analysis, competitive advantage and successful strategy execution, among others.
Credits: 3
The objective of this course is to familiarise students with the following: theories of compensation; organization policies and its impact on compensation; behavioural effects of compensation plans.
This course provides an overview of the history of positive psychology and the contributions that positive psychology has made to several traditional research areas in psychology. The course will define and unpack the complex concept of happiness, and examine the mechanisms that cause and maintain it. Topics will be connected to their implications for increasing well-being throughout the course. Training in psychology typically focuses on ‘weakness’, rather than on ‘strengths’. This course addresses a need for programmes in psychology to build on personal strengths, something that can immediately affect students’ lives.
