16 June, 2007

Course Preview - 4th Semester

In our 1st semester of our 2nd Year in Diploma in Social Science(Counselling), we''ll be covering 4 very interesting subject, and 1 not so interesting subject.

We'll talk about the interesting subjects first.

Developmental Psychology
Lectured by everyone's favourite lecturer in the School of Social Science, Mr Phillip Chung.
Tutored by a part-time lecturer, an alumni in our course. Which means, she's our senior. She's young, very pretty and of course, very fun to be in her class. ( I mean the way she teaches ok, not her physical looks. ) In this subject, we learn about how we ourselves develop, physically and psychologically. A very useful subject for those who are interested to be involved in pre-school education.

Family Counselling
This subject sounds boring to many. But to me, it sounds fun! At least it allows me to explore more about the various types on family, family conflict and so on. An old man, retired 10 years ago is teaching us this subject. He's so old that sometimes he forget where he put his things, but thankfully, he still knows his stuffs to teach us. He's no other than Mr Kuan, or better know as Kuan Ti to mischievous students who give people names.

Vocational & Career Counselling
My ambition is to be a Sport Psychologist, or anything related in the sport field. However, according to our lecturer, the lovely Miss Eva, with this subject, it MIGHT change my thinking. We'll see by the end of semester. Besides learning how to counsel people in this field, it also helps me to explore what I really want as a career.

Leadership Skills
It was one of the very few subject I was looking forward to when I browse through our college prospectus. It's much more of a practical subject, plus with some theories. Theories do help us to see what are the kind of leadership qualities that we have and do not have, how to develop and sharpen your skills. Of course, theory without practice is useless. That is why we have practical classes to conduct activities. This subject is taught by one of the top leaders of the School of Social Science itself, she's no other than Dr Cecilia Chai.



and ... the not so interesting subject...

Basic Management Principles
From the name itself, it's a Business subject. And taught by a lecturer from the School of Business Studies. Boring to me, but still, there's always something useful to be picken up from there. The reason we have this as our subject is to equip students who do not want to major in any Psychology field, but in Human Resource instead.

Interesting... but it's going to be a very busy semester after I read all my assignment task.

besides, I was secretly hoping that the college sports coordinator would call me back to be our college’s Co-Curricular Gym Workout programme assistant instructor. Until now, there's no phone call.

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