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