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COURSE TITLE:
COURSE CODE:
PSY 338
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Feelings of love are among the most powerfully felt (and powerfully
motivating) in human experience. In this course, we will focus on
romantic and companionate forms of love as they are thought about and
studied by psychologists and scientists. How are love-related phenomena
appropriately studied? Is romantic love the same in all cultures? How does
psychology understand love? What happens when people fall in love?
These are some of the topics that will be covered in discussing current
evolutionary, psychological and sociocultural theories and research about
love and intimate relationships. The course seeks to facilitate an
application of such knowledge to daily life and modern day scenarios.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the subjects, subjects should achieve the following:
A deeper knowledge and understanding about the theories of love
from an evolutionary- biological, psychological and sociocultural
approach using current research.
Possess greater critical thinking skills with regards to the theories and
knowledge that has been put forth by science and psychology and
being able to discuss, debate and apply these findings.
A greater awareness of how our understanding and perception of love
affects our decision making, understanding of human relationships
and daily life.
A greater depth of understanding about ones own personal and
intimate relationships in the past, present or future and take steps
towards maintaining a healthy, thriving intimate relationship.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the end of the course, students are able to:
1. Describe and explain current theories, research and concepts about love and intimate relationships
2. Apply these concepts, theories and expert knowledge to your own personal lives, living healthier more
functional relationships
3. Examine and critique the strengths and limitation of current psychological research in the area of love and
intimate relationships
4. Conduct student-based workshops in the classroom using theories, research and approaches on current
issues that are related to the course.
PREREQUISITES:
MAIN
TEXTBOOK:
LECTURER:
TELEPHONE:
GRADUATE TUTOR:
EMAIL:
COURSE ASSESSMENT:
CREDIT HOURS:
10%
20%
15%
15%
40%
Course Assessment
1. Individual Reflection Series (3 part assignment)- Due Week 4, 20th June Friday @ 5pm
This course serves its purpose not just to educate students on knowledge but on application to your own
personal relationships. Therefore, this 3 part reflection series aims to put your critical thinking, reflection
and personal thoughts and experiences into words.
a. This assignment is a 3 part reflections series in which you will create/ ask a critical thinking
reflection question based on the two topics covered for each reflection paper. E.g. For Reflection
1, you can ask a critical thinking/ reflection question on Building Blocks of intimate
relationships and/ or Social Cognition
b. You can reflect on an issue raise, a question discussed, a recent discussion with a friend a video
shown, an article discussed. You can even go on ted.com and browse through TEDTalks on the
topic of love and relationships and find a video that you can listen and reflect on. Remember it
has to be related to the topics covered that two weeks.
c. You are to state the question at the top of your paper, following by an indepth personal reflection
and critical thinking on your answers. The question you ask carries weight and is an important
grading component. Thus, if you ask a superficial question with superficial answers, you will get
a lower grade.
d. If you are using a TEDtalk video to discuss, be sure to state the title and author of the talk as per
title in the video.
e. You are required to label your reflection series as Reflection Series Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Each
parts should be around 3 pages, with a total of 9-10 pages. You are to submit your 3 part
assignment together under one cover page and references if any. Please attach the marking
scheme at the title page.
f. I would suggest that you complete your reflection as the course progresses and not a last minute
work when the lecture and class discussion content is still fresh in mind.
Reflection Assignment Marking Scheme (PSY 338)
Part 1: Depth of personal reflection, critical thinking and writing style
(Grammar, flow of paper)
Part 2: Depth of personal reflection, critical thinking and writing style
(Grammar, flow of paper)
Part 3: Depth of personal reflection, critical thinking and writing style
(Grammar, flow of paper)
/10 marks
/10 marks
/10 marks
/30 marks
2. Group Assignment Video Talk and Paper Paper due week 6 @ Friday, 5pm.
*Please refer to the Group Assignment Brief at the end of this Course outline for more information.
3. Quizzes
There will be 5 Quizzes that given in class from Weeks 1- 6. The quizzes will be based on the lectures
and your textbook. Each quiz is worth 3 marks. Total quizzes marks are worth 15% of your grade.
4. Final Exams
Your final exams will include all the topics covered in your lectures only as per course outline. There
will be MCQ questions and short answer questions. More details given later in the course.
Teaching Week
Lectures
1
(May 25-29)
2
(June 1-5)
3
(June 8-12)
4
(June 13-20)
5
(June 22-26)
6
(June 29-Jul 3)
Notes
Quiz 1 (Building blocks)
Quiz 2 (lecture 2)
Quiz 3 (Lecture 4)
Reflection Paper due, Friday
@5pm
Guest speaker: Bee Sean?
Quiz 4 (Lecture 8)
2. Plagiarism note
All students must use the APA citation style refer to the guide posted on My Acel.
Plagiarism is defined as any unacknowledged use of ideas and material produced by someone
other than the writer him/herself.
Please note that you are NOT to submit any part of an assignment that you have already
submitted to any subject, whether in the same or different semester
All assignments must be submitted to Turnitin. Failure to do so will result in 0 marks for that
particular assignment.
The following rules apply:
1) Any information taken from any source must be cited.
2) If you copy the words (more than 3 words in the same sequence) from the source, this is
called a direct quotation. Quotation marks must be used and this must be cited.
3) If you re-write or summarize the information in your own words, this is called a
paraphrase. No quotation marks are necessary, but the source must be cited.
Category
Blatant plagiarism
Accidental
Description
Complete paragraphs and/or sentences used
without in-text acknowledgement
Clear intent to plagiarize
Action
For cases of blatant plagiarism, students may be
called before the Dept Assessment Investigative
Committee (DAIC) consisting of the Head of
Department and two Senior Lecturers. The following
decisions can be made at the discretion of the lecturer
and/or the DAIC:
1. 0 for assignment
2. F grade for the subject
3. Suspension from the program
4. Expulsion from the program
In addition to this, all faculty staff will be made
aware of the students who appear before the
committee. Reference /recommendation letters will
not be provided for these students.
Maximum 50% of available points
Poor paraphrasing
Lecturer discretion
Student to be notified of action. This will be
accompanied by a discussion/consultation on how
the mistake can be avoided in future.
Maximum 50% of available points
Lecturer discretion
Student to be notified of action. This will be
accompanied by a discussion / consultation on how
the mistake can be avoided in future.
i.
ii.
iii.
For class tests / mid-terms that are 1 hour or less students are not allowed to enter after / leave
before the first 10 minutes of the test.
For class tests / mid-terms that more than 1 hour students are not allowed to enter after / leave
before the first 30 minutes of the test.
For class tests / mid-terms, students are not allowed to leave in the last 10 minutes of the test.
For example:
Extra credit offered by PSY 105 lecturer:
1. In-house seminar = 1%
2. Acting as colloquium assistant = 1%
3. The maximum extra credit that you can allocate from your research participation and colloquium attendance
for PSY 105 is 1%.
Total = 3% (maximum extra credit for PSY 105 reached).
6. Students may choose to allocate any extra credit earned in any combination (minimum 0.25%) to the
current subjects that they are enrolled for, provided that the extra credit per subject does not exceed 3%.
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For example:
Total extra credit earned = 6%. Students can choose to allocate the 6% as follows:
1. PSY 201 = 2%
2. PSY 205 = 1.5%
3. PSY 209 = 2.5%
* Following the example above, the 6% extra credit cannot be allocated multiple times for each subject (i.e. it cannot
be 3% for PSY 201, 3% for PSY 205 and 3% for PSY 209 -- this would total up to 9%, which the student above has
not obtained.)
Bachelor of Psychology (May 2015)
You must have a google account to fill in and submit the form (if you do not have a google account, click on the
link above and you will see an option to create a google account).
Your responses to this form can be edited up to Monday 13 July 2015 5pm, so please ensure that you are logged
in to your original google account so that you can edit your responses. Do not log in to a different google
account to fill in this form as that will be logged as two different entries in your name and will affect the extra
credit that you receive.
Changes made after Monday 13 July 5pm will not be entertained.
If you only wish to apply for extra credit for 1 subject, only fill in the information under "Subject 1" (leave the
rest empty). If a subject does not appear in the options given, this means that the subject is not eligible for extra
credit.
Business Psychology / ADP students please choose subjects according to the PSY subject code that
corresponds to your subject.
Please ensure that the amount of extra credit that you are allocating tallies with your total research participation
(experimental hours attended experimental hours missed) + colloquium attendance.
9. Important: the google form is only for extra credit earned through research participation (advertised on
ipsy.help.edu.my/experiments) and colloquium. Extra credit offered by individual subjects will be
monitored by the lecturer/tutor.
10. The Department of Psychology does not guarantee that there will be sufficient extra credit opportunities
for students to obtain the maximum amount of extra credit for every psychology subject that they are
enrolled for.
8. Research Participation
Students may sign up for all experiments eligible for extra credit at http://ipsy.help.edu.my/experiments. There are
instructions on the main page for all experimenters and participants, so please refer to the instructions there.
30 minutes of participation = 0.25% extra credit. 1 hour of research participation = 0.5% extra credit.
Important Note: Total Hours eligible for Extra Credit = Attended Hours Absent Hours (clarify with the department
if you are unsure). Students must ensure that they attend every experiment that they sign up for. Failure to attend an
experiment will result in the number of hours of that experiment being deducted from the total hours you have completed.
Example 1: If one signs up for a 2-hour experiment but fails to attend this experiment, the total research hours eligible for
extra credit = -2 hours. When a student has negative research participation hours, this will then be tallied with the
colloquium attendance hours (if any), and will reduce the amount of extra credit earned. Using this example, if a student
has -2 research participation hours and has attended 4 hours of colloquium: 4 hours (colloquium) - 2 hours
(negative research participation hours) = 2 hours eligible for extra credit = 1% extra credit.
Example 2: If one attended 2 hours of experiments and was absent from 0.5 hours, their total hours eligible for extra credit
= 1.5 hours. 1.5 hours = 0.75% extra credit.
Please refer to the Department of Psychology admin staff if you have any questions about this.
in the case of written assessment, to contribute to the finished product, be it presentation notes, a research report
or a project report. This contribution may include archival research, drafting, editing or formatting.
1.2
in the case of an oral presentation, to verbally present part of the presentation. No individual should be exempt
from speaking during the oral presentation.
1.3
to be clear on what your specific roles and contributions are to the group effort, as well as the expectations your
group members have in terms of your contributions.
1.4
attend group meetings unless there are legitimate and documented reasons for missing them.
1.5
attend group meetings with supervisors unless there are legitimate and documented reasons for missing them
2. Group members have a right to report fellow members for negligence if there are deemed to have failed in any of the
responsibilities listed above.
2.1
Group members are encouraged to raise these complaints with their lecturers and attempts made to resolve
differences before a formal complaint is lodged.
2.2
Negligence (social loafing) reports can be filled in by one or several members of the group (see attached form)
using forms that can be downloaded from the myacel site.
2.3
Negligence reports should be submitted to the course lecturer who will then make a decision having investigated
the issues raised. The group member accused will have an opportunity to defend themselves against the
allegations made.
2.4
If a student is found to be negligent in this matter, a lecturer can penalize them by deducting any amount of
marks from their group assessment marks and/or their individual assignment marks.
11. Evaluations
Every semester, there will be 2 evaluation processes for each subject:
1.
Mid-semester evaluations:
These evaluations are held in class and consist of 2 subjective questions. This is so that lecturers and tutors can
receive feedback in the middle of the semester, in order to address student concerns and make improvements
within the same semester.
2.
Compulsory end of semester evaluations:
These evaluations are conducted online and consist of Likert-scale questions as well as 2 subjective questions.
The purpose of this is to obtain feedback that will be beneficial for future semesters.
Marking Criteria
Title and Topic Summary: The title given is clear,
focused and captures the essence of your talk. The
topic summary provides an excellent overview of the
talk, summarizing concisely the content of the talk
Points
/10
3.
Content:
Relevant references used to inform reader
about the topic.
Literature integrates different sources well,
synthesizing various relevant sources in a
coherent manner.
Writing style, grammar, formatting, flow,
references
Total:
10%
/ 15
/5
/30
2.
4.
Marking Criteria
Content:
Idea presented has a clear introduction, body and
conclusion. It is interesting, engaging and well
presented.
Quality of Video Talk:
Video is excellently created, speaker and slides (if
any) is clear and engaging. It is a TED talk potential!
Teamwork effort and adherence to assignment
guidelines:
Substantial effort is put into video preparation,
teamwork was demonstrated. Team also followed
guidelines and instructions well as per assignment
brief.
Total:
20%
Points
/10
/20
/10
/40