What To Do With All That Free Time?

Ideas to spice up your holiday or make it beneficial for your future.

1) Learn a new language or build on the ones you already know.

2) Offer your services to charity. 

3) Join a leadership camp.

4) Recycle your old unwanted notes and books.

5) Join an internship program.

6) Get a part-time job.

7) Clean your room.

8) Keep in touch with an old friend and join them in their favourite hobby for a day.

9) Fix your sleeping cycle (if you're one to sleep late frequently)

10) Read a children's book for a refreshing feel good time.

11) Do some self-reflection on who you are as a person, and compare how you were like last semester, how you were as a high schooler and how you were in primary school. Do you know yourself and what you want? Are you assertive in your values? Do people pressure you into compromising the goals you have set out for yourself? List two goals you would like to achieve next semester.

Updates from the last meeting with Dr Goh

Points discussed and agreed upon at the BPIP meeting with Dr Goh
Date: 6 July 2011
Time: 5pm
Venue: Main Block, HELP University

Points:
1) Amending the timetable so that students can have semester breaks and fully benefit from their classes.
• Possibly having students to take Business subjects first and then Psychology subjects or vice versa.

2) Clarifying that the Business Psychology Degree Program is indeed accredited by MQA since 2009.

3) Revising the current teaching materials for some subjects.
• Investigating the Psychology and Law (LAW309) subject syllabus in order to determine that the right syllabus is being taught effectively.

4) Have a special class to help students to get familiar with lab report writing and the APA format.

5) Have a discussion with Ms Jue Ying regarding the future plans for Business Psychology students.

6) Forming a Business Psychology Student Council by September and electing a representative from each year.

7) Making it mandatory for students to take the four levels of Research Methodology classes (that Psychology students already take) so as to equip them with proper knowledge in statistics and SPSS.

8) Making it compulsory for students to take career guidance classes.

9) Making it optional for students to carry out their thesis under the supervision of either Business or Psychology department.
• If the thesis is more related to Business themes and concepts, students will be referred to a supervisor under the Business department.
• If the thesis is more related to concepts used in Psychology, students will be referred to a supervisor under the Psychology department.

10) Making it compulsory for all business psychology students to participate in experiments.
• Whereby students must attend 2 hours of experiments in order to gain experience on how experiments are conducted. The 2 hour quota must be met or 2 marks will be deducted from the overall score/ grade the student receives.

11) Arranging a 3 hour career guidance talk for senior/ ex Business Psychology students sometime in October.

Thank you for your time,
Noelle Chew and Cheryl Han

Who you should talk to when you have enquiries/ problems/ complaints/ suggestions

So we met with Dr Goh today and we have comforting news to share. The whole list of changes that was discussed at the meeting will be updated on this blog as well as our facebook fan page later. Hope that you guys are delighted to know that the Business Psychology program is indeed accredited! (since 2009 it seems) and there was just a miscommunication between the two departments and its students. GUYS! BPIP is a success! \0/ Thank you so much for your feedback and support :)

Relating back to the topic, I would like to clarify to all students that our course is now officially under the care of the psychology department. If you guys have any complaints (be it subjects, lecturers, personal problems, etc), please do not hesitate to contact Ms Lee Jue Ying (psych department manager) at leejy@help.edu.my or Dr Goh (dean) at gohcl@help.edu.my. EVEN if the issue is to be solved within the Business Department, please inform and refer to Ms Jue Ying or Dr Goh first!

That is all for now. Stay tuned for more updates!