HP1000 Introduction to Psychology

Lessons:
2 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week

Assessment:
Class Participation 10%
Research Participation 5%
Mid-terms 35%
Finals 50%

Exam Format:
Midterms - MCQs + Short-Answer Questions
Finals - MCQs + Fill in the blanks + Short Essay Questions

Description:

An interesting module, gives us basic insights on the main areas of Psychology, such as brain functions, humans' developmental changes, social influences on behaviours, sleep and dreams, psychological disorders, etc.

Readings are quite heavy, each chapter with an average of 40 pages of the textbook.
No tutorial homework, but still have to attend tutorials for the class participation marks. How the tutorials are carried out depends on your teacher.
There's no recorded lectures. And lecture content can mostly be found in the textbook. Lecturers often show interesting videos during the lectures, which can help you to understand the content better, so it is good to turn up for lectures.
Textbook is a MUST because exams will test on content in the textbook. Lecture notes is definitely inadequate.

Research participation is required. Generally, it is just taking surveys or simple psychological tasks, depending on the search that you sign up for. You will be required to complete 10 credits, and each credit takes about 30min or less. If you are really unwilling to be a research subject, you can opt to do an essay instead, which is a really unpopular choice.

For the mid-terms, most of the content require memorizing, but for the finals, understanding of the concepts and theories will be more important as there will be some application questions. Finals emphasizes on content covered after midterms and it's manageable, with enough time for checking.

However, there will be many Psychology majors taking that module in the first semester so it may be quite competitive because it is their core and they will study hard for it.