Psychology The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Overview

Key features

Psychology is closely related to other subject areas that involve the study of human behaviour, and students who are familiar with psychology will find it easy to pick up these other subjects.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 's undergraduate curriculum is comprehensive, offering 40+ courses in various research areas. In addition to basic courses, such as General Psychology, Introduction to Statistics and Research Methods, the following five areas of concentration are available: 

• Cognitive Science: The study of memory, cognition, language, and human intelligence, and their neural underpinnings; 
• Education and Human Development: The psychology of personal growth, educational psychology, and the psychology of children, adolescents and adults from a developmental perspective; 
• Social and Industrial-Organisational Psychology: Social, cross-cultural, and industrial and organizational psychology; 
• Clinical and Health Psychology: Abnormal and health psychology, neuropsychology and related areas; 
• Training in Guided Self-Help for Low Intensity Psychological Interventions: Application of evidence-based psychological principles in the treatment of common mental disorders and the promotion of mental health using the guided self-help approach.