Master of Arts (APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY)

Master of Arts in Applied Psychology is a postgraduate Psychology course. Keeping pace with the disciplinary advances the program would address learning about psychological functioning at individual and social levels in an inclusive manner. It would facilitate acquiring specialized knowledge, inculcating relevant attitude, values, and a sense of empowerment. It recognizes multiplicity in ways and means of knowledge-creation and applications. To this end, the students will be familiarized with plurality in perspectives, pedagogy, and their implications. The course would allow students to nurture their academic interests in specialized domains of psychology, along with quest for personal growth and citizenship. The Department holds the provision for inclusion of new courses and modification of presented ones during a given academic year.

Student can have specialization in Clinical Psychology or Industrial Psychology. It includes a comprehensive and thorough study of Psychology as a discipline at an advanced level. M.A. (Applied Psychology) degree course covers the study of subjects and topics like General Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Personality Psychology, Indian Psychology, Industrial Psychology, etc.

In other words, M.A. (Applied Psychology) degree course is a study involving the scientific study of mental functions and behaviour. The duration of M.A. in Applied Psychology course is two years and the course is divided into four semesters.