Program name: | Psychology |
Study Level: | Undergraduate |
Program leader: | Nana Burduli |
Study language: | Georgian |
Qualification: | Bachelor of Psychology |
Program capacity: | 240 |
Program permission: | Enrollment of students at the first level of academic higher education (undergraduate programs) is conducted based on the results of unified national exams or the order of the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia No. 224/N (December 29, 2011), passing administrative registration and the order of the presidents. The goal of the program is to train highly competent psychologists whose knowledge is based on liberal-humanistic values, equipping them to achieve success through honest work. |
Program goals: | The goal of the bachelor's program in psychology is to prepare psychologists with a broad profile, providing them with knowledge in the main areas of scientific psychology; basic mental processes and their characteristic regularities; stages of human mental development and their peculiarities, regularities of interpersonal and intergroup relations existing in social reality; The essence of personality and the theories surrounding its research, about the appropriateness of human behavior according to the general psychological theory of attitude; In addition, - they will be able to apply the general principles of research production within the framework of professional ethics, to select research features and specific methods, to plan, conduct, and process and analyze real empirical research. Graduates of the program will be able to be employed as a psychologist-assistant and assistant psychologist in the fields such as human resources management services of any state and private organization (banks, corporations, ministries, pharmacy chains, store chains), kindergartens and schools, training centers, research organizations, services of psychological consultants of educational institutions, counseling and rehabilitation centers and clinics for children and adults. |
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Date of approval: | 08-30-2016 |
Approval protocol number: | 27-16 |
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Update protocol number: | 01-21 |
Program details: | In addition to the humanitarian-social and STEM blocks, students have the opportunity to accumulate 96 additional credits through specialization, optional program components, or free credits. The program is designed to allow for differentiation among students based on their language competencies. The student's English language level is determined based on the assessment received in the unified national exams and the internal exam, allowing them to start at the appropriate stage corresponding to their knowledge.
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Teaching Process Characteristics: | To obtain the academic degree of Bachelor, the student needs to complete 240 credits, which means 144 ECTS from the main subjects of the program; 6 ECTS from humanitarian-social block and 6 ECTS from STEM block; 18 ECTS free credits; The mentioned change does not apply to students who were enrolled before 2021 among the 66 ECTS program elective subjects (which are thematically structured). The language of instruction of the program is Georgian, with separate English-language components. Therefore, the majority of components are delivered in Georgian, except for courses that utilize English-language literature. |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
ANTH3130 | Basics of Cultural Anthropology | 6 | 1 |
BUSN4433 | Economy, business, management | 6 | 1 |
HIST1118 | Civilizations and Mankind Development | 6 | 1 |
HIST1222 | History of Russian occupation in Georgia | 6 | 1 |
LAWB1155 | Debates and Critical Thinking | 6 | 1 |
LAWB1177 | Thinking and Morality | 6 | 1 |
LAWB1195 | Citizenship in the modern world | 6 | 1 |
LITR1212 | The great Books | 6 | 1 |
POLI2260 | Basics of Political Ideologies | 6 | 1 |
Credits sum: | 6 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
MATH1414 | Analytical and Quantitative Reasoning | 6 | 1 |
STEM0002 | Ingenuity, entrepreneurship and technology | 6 | 1 |
STEM0003 | Experiments that changed the world | 6 | 1 |
STEM0004 | Game theory | 6 | 1 |
STEM0005 | Modern technologies | 6 | 1 |
STEM0007 | Mathematics and Civilizations | 6 | 1 |
STEM0010 | Logic | 6 | 1 |
STEM0011 | Computational reasoning | 6 | 1 |
STEM0012 | Biology and Health of the Human | 6 | 1,2 |
STEM0013 | Basics of Cyber Hygiene | 6 | 1,2 |
Credits sum: | 6 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
ENGL3213 | English Language VI (B2/2) | 6 | 1 |
PSYC1221 | Principles of Psychology I | 6 | 1 |
PSYC1240 | Biological Basis of Behavior | 6 | 1 |
PSYC1223 | Principles of Psychology II | 6 | 2 |
PSYC1241 | History of Psychology | 6 | 2 |
PSYC1331 | Developmental Psychology | 6 | 2 |
PSYC1335 | Research Methods in Psychology 1 | 6 | 2 |
PSYC1315 | Social Psychology I | 6 | 3 |
PSYC1320 | Cognitive Psychology I | 6 | 3 |
PSYC1350 | Research Methods In Psychology 2 | 6 | 3 |
PSYC1430 | Personality Psychology I | 6 | 3 |
PSYC1313 | Social Psychology II | 6 | 4 |
PSYC1323 | Cognitive Psychology | 6 | 4 |
PSYC3167 | Experimental Psychology | 6 | 4 |
PSYC3260 | Personality Psychology II | 6 | 4 |
PSYC1270 | Statistics for the Social Sciences I | 6 | 5 |
PSYC2210 | Psychology of Set I | 6 | 5 |
PSYC4415 | Work and organizational psychology | 6 | 5 |
PSYC1231 | Clinical Psychology | 6 | 6 |
PSYC2190 | Statistics for the Social Sciences II | 6 | 6 |
PSYC7710 | Psychology of Set II | 6 | 6 |
PSYC1426 | Bachelor Thesis in Psychology | 18 | 8 |
Credits sum: | 144 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | |
PSYC1341 | Psychology of Conflict | 6 | |
PSYC1520 | 6 | ||
PSYC4416 | Psychology of Leadership | 6 | |
PSYC1311 | Practice in Clinical Psychology | 6 | |
PSYC1314 | Research Practices in Psychology | 6 | |
PSYC1415 | Psychological characteristics preschool aged child | 6 | |
PSYC1421 | Psychosomatic Medicine | 6 | |
PSYC1428 | Social Skills Training | 6 | |
PSYC1432 | Interpersonal Communication | 6 | |
PSYC1435 | Psychology of Influence | 6 | |
PSYC1436 | Issues of Violence Against Children | 6 | |
PSYC1515 | Psychology of Advertising | 6 | |
PSYC1516 | The major movements of psychology in the ХХ century | 6 | |
PSYC1525 | Behavior disorders | 6 | |
PSYC1530 | Basics of Psychotherapy | 6 | |
PSYC3115 | Fundamentals of educational psychology | 6 | |
PSYC3131 | Abnormal Psychology | 6 | |
PSYC4190 | Basics of Psychodiagnostics | 6 | |
PSYC4270 | Psychology of Religion | 6 | |
MGMT3121 | Basics of Organizational Behavior | 6 | |
PHIL2130 | History of Philosophic Thought | 6 | |
PSYC1260 | The child's Mental disorders | 6 | |
PSYC1316 | Practice in Labour and Orgazation Psychology | 6 | |
PSYC1317 | practice in educational and developmental psychology | 6 | |
PSYC1345 | Forensic Psychology | 6 | |
PSYC1351 | Conflicts and Negotiations | 6 | |
PSYC1355 | Psychology of Management | 6 | |
PSYC1414 | Professional English for Psychologists | 6 | |
PSYC1425 | Psychological characteristics of children of school age. | 6 | |
PSYC1518 | Problem-based learning in Psychology | 6 | |
PSYC3295 | Consulting Psychology | 6 | |
PSYC4231 | Neuropsychology | 6 | |
SOCL3110 | The Principles of Sociology | 6 | |
Credits sum: | 198 |
Point | GPA | The university assessment | The general assessment in Georgia | |
97-100 | 4,00 | A+ | A | Excellent |
94-96 | 3,75 | A | ||
91-93 | 3,50 | A- | ||
87-90 | 3,25 | B+ | Very good | |
84-86 | 3,00 | B | B | |
81-83 | 2,75 | B- | ||
77-80 | 2,50 | C+ | C | good |
74-76 | 2,25 | C | ||
71-73 | 2,00 | C- | ||
67-70 | 1,75 | D+ | D | Satisfactory |
64-66 | 1,50 | D | ||
61-63 | 1,25 | D- | ||
51-60 | 1,00 | E | E | Sufficient |
Not passed | ||||
41-50 | FX | FX | Insufficient | |
<40 | F | F | Failed |