Bachelor of Social Science (Hons) Guidance and Counselling
Programme Educational Objectives (PEO)
- Equipped with professional knowledge, skills and values necessary to meet the needs and demands of the globalized counselling field at large.
- Capable of communicating, presenting, executing and managing guidance and counselling practices effectively and professionally in both local and international contexts.
- Capable of using critical, creative and analytical thinking skills to solve complex issues in the guidance and counselling field.
- Competent in using professional ethics, lifelong learning, managerial and entrepreneurial skills to meet the needs of the counselling practices.
Programme Learning Outcomes (PLO)
- Demonstrate the ability to apply, analyse and propose counselling theories and principles in various counselling settings.
- Develop guidance and counselling skills for prevention and intervention of a wide range of psychosocial issues and challenges.
- Demonstrate leadership abilities and commit themselves to professional responsibilities of counsellors.
- Practise professional guidance and counselling values and ethics in various counselling settings.
- Display effective interpersonal communication capability in a variety of guidance and counselling practices.
- Design evidence-based practices in psychosocial interventions in various counselling settings.
- Use digital and numeracy skills to collect, analyse, interpret and present scientific data within the field of guidance and counselling.
- Demonstrate the essentiality of self-directed life-long learning and entrepreneurship skills in the rapid growing psychological wellness industry.
