Museum Studies and Monuments Protection

Museum Studies and Monuments Protection

QUALIFICATION

  • First Stage of Higher Education - Bachelor of Humanities

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

Upon completion of this educational program, students are expected to be able to:
ON1 to organize scientific research in the field of applied museology and historical and cultural and natural heritage protection;
ON2 to develop projects in the main directions of museum activity and separate sections of drafts of regional programs of saving and using of cultural heritage, including – in the field of historical and cultural tourism;
ON3 to carry out historical and cultural, local history work, activities for saving, studying, promotion of cultural heritage in the organizations and cultural institutions, educations, government institutions;
ON4 to create the scientific concept and develop a documentation package, necessary for design of museum exposures and temporary exhibitions;
ON5 to work in the field of museum and pedagogical activity, prepare the methodical documents for all categories of museum audience;
ON6 to use modern information technologies when developing new historical and cultural projects and the organization of museum work;
ON7 to use the principles of museum management and organize a business activity in the museums and cultural institutions;
ON8 to put into practice skills of analytical and expert work in the field of museology, heritage protection and art criticism;
ON9 to organize work on completing of museum funds according to requirements of modern museology, carry out registration and curating activity in the museum and on objects of historical and cultural heritage;
ON10 to develop a monitoring system of a status of safety of museum objects, collections and historical and cultural monuments, to support necessary storage modes and to hold events for preservation and restoration of values;
ON11 to carry out work on identification, attribution and scientific certification of movable and immovable objects of historical and cultural heritage and objects of museum value (museum objects);
ON12 give an assessment to situations in different spheres of interpersonal, social and professional communication taking into account basic knowledge of sociology, political science, culturologists and psychology; operate with public, business, cultural, legal and ethical standards of the Kazakhstan society.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Museum Studies and Monuments Protection
Speciality Code
6B02206
Faculty
History

disciplines

Culturology
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim of discipline is to form a bachelor's understanding of the specifics of the development of national culture in the context of world culture and civilization, need to preserve the cultural code of the Kazakh people, ability to pursue in independent professional activity a strategy of preserving the cultural heritage.

Foreign Language
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form the improvement of knowledge of foreign language communicative competence. The main methods of speech skills and foreign language communication skills are considered as a basis for the development of communicative competence; implementation of acquired speech skills in the process of searching, selecting and using material in English.

Historical and Cultural Heritage Protection
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form the ability to analyze the activities of organizations designed to preserve and popularize monuments of historical, cultural and natural heritage. Legislation in the field of preserving the world cultural heritage will be considered, methods for preserving and reconstructing monuments will be investigated.

Historical and Cultural Tourism
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to train students to assess the significance of historical, cultural heritage of Kazakhstan and other countries of the world in the development of tourism. The role of museum in the formation and development of tourist cities and routes will be considered; features of various categories of tourists.

Historical Technologies in Material Culture
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to develop skills in the analysis and use of technologies used in the creation of monuments of material culture. Historical technologies used in the manufacture of cultural and art objects of various eras help to better understand the level of development of society, its features, aesthetic representations.

Information and Communication Technologies (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to explain the goals, content and trends in the development of information and communication technologies, justification of the choice of the most appropriate technology for solving specific tasks. Methods of collecting, storing and processing information, architecture of computer systems and networks, tasks and functions of the main components will be studied.

Introduction to Art History
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form the ability to analyze works of fine art. The main stages of the development of art, the theoretical foundations of plastic arts (painting, sculpture, architecture), the main styles, schools of world art, the main concepts of art science, masterpieces of world art will be considered.

Introduction to Museology
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to understand the main directions of museum studies. Will be studied: research, exposition, cultural and educational, marketing activities of museums, the history of museums, features of museum studies as a field of scientific knowledge, its structure, conceptual apparatus.

Kazakh (Russian) Language
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description -

Module of socio-political knowledge (Culture)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Political science)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Psychology)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Sociology)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Sociology/ Political science/ Culture/ Psychology)
  • Number of credits - 8
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Museum Archeology
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of this discipline is to form an idea of the interaction of the museum and archaeological science. They will consider: the history of archeology and museums of archeology, the principles of collecting, fixing, forming and storing the archaeological collection in the museum, its exposure.

Museum Ethnography
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form ideas about the role of museums in the formation of ethnological science, ethnographic collections stored in museums and which are important sources for the work of scientists. The principles of storage, demonstration and research of individual ethnographic objects and collections in general will be considered.

Museum Exposition
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to create the ability of students to design museum exhibitions. Will be considered: history, theory, methodology and techniques for constructing the exposition; the role of the museum exposition as the main form of museum communication.

Museum Management and Marketing
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - This discipline is form the ability to manage the museum, increase the number of visitors and profits. Will be considered: the features of the museum as a non-profit institution, the requirements imposed by modernity on the museum director, the principles of organizing an advertising and PR campaign, museum fundraising.

Museum Pedagogics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form skills for working with various categories of museum audiences. Will be considered: theory, history and methodology of museum pedagogy, museum educational programs, as well as the role of the modern museum as an important factor in the educational and educational impact on the population.

Philosophy
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form a systematic understanding of philosophy and its main problems and methods in the context of future professional activities. The main content of ontology and metaphysics is considered in the context of the historical development of philosophy; the importance of key worldview concepts in the modern world.

Physical Training
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - РК(с оценкой)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of social and personal competencies of students, ensuring the targeted use of the appropriate means of physical culture and sports for preservation, preparation for professional activities. As a result of studying the discipline, the graduate should know the role of physical culture in human development.

Political Science
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The academic discipline “Political science” forms knowledge of the laws and laws of world politics and modern political processes, explaining the essence and content of the policy of national states, on the basis of ensuring national security and the realization of national interests.

Psychology
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of studying the discipline is to provide scientifically grounded training of highly qualified specialists on the basis of studying the fundamental concepts of psychology management, creating the necessary prerequisites for theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important management problems related to the process of professional development.

Research Activity of a Museum
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to develop skills for carrying out scientific work as an employee of various departments of the museum (scientific, excursion, educational departments). Will be considered the direction of its activities related to the accumulation, processing and introduction into scientific circulation of material and intangible heritage objects.

Scientifically-Fund Work of Museum
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to form the ability to carry out fund work in the museum, and store various types of materials. Will be considered: scientific organization of the fund, identification and selection of museum objects, inclusion in the museum collection, research, documentation of work results in documents.

Sociology
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course presents general questions of theory and history of sociology, methodology and methods of sociological research, special sociological theories. This course is aimed at shaping the sociological imagination of students, basic ideas about the subject and methods of sociological research, topical problems and sociology branches.

World Culture History
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form the ability to compare and draw conclusions on the main problems of culture. Will be considered: the history of culture, religion and mythology, the most significant works of world literature, musical and theatrical art, the most important features of artistic creativity and perception.

World Museums
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form the ability to determine the trends in the development of major museums in the context of world culture. The content includes: creation of the museums in regions of the world, their development, the sources of the formation and replenishment of collections.

Нistory of Kazakhstan
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [РК1+MT+РК2+ ГЭК] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to give objective knowledge about the main stages in the development of the history of Kazakhstan from ancient times to the present. Expected learning outcomes: 1) demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the main stages in the development of the history of Kazakhstan; 2) to correlate the phenomena and events of the historical past with the general paradigm of the world-historical development of human society through critical analysis; 3) to possess the skills of analytical and axiological analysis in the study of historical processes and phenomena of modern Kazakhstan; 4) be able to objectively and comprehensively comprehend the immanent features of the modern Kazakh model of development; 5) Systematize and give a critical assessment of historical phenomena and processes in the history of Kazakhstan. During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: Ancient people and the formation of a nomadic civilization, Turkic civilization and the Great Steppe, Kazakhstan in modern times (XVIII - early XX centuries), Kazakhstan as part of the Soviet administrative-command system, Kazakhstan in the world community (1991-2022).

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Abais Teaching
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form in future specialists the ability to self-knowledge, the use of Abai's doctrine as the basis of spirituality and intellectuality of modern Kazakhstan, the application of their professional knowledge, understanding and abilities through the prism of humanism and education in order to strengthen the unity of the country and civil solidarity of society.The following will be studied: the concept of the teachings of Abai; sources of teaching; components of Abai's doctrine; categories of Abai's doctrine; measuring instruments of the teachings of Abai; the essence and meaning of Abai’s doctrine.

Al-Farabi and Modernity
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim of the discipline: to form students' ideas about the scientific and philosophical heritage of the great Turkic thinker Abu Nasr al-Farabi in developing the world and national culture. Learning outcomes: explain the main philosophical contents al-Farabi's heritage and his influence on the formation of Turkic philosophy; influence European Renaissance.

Arts and Craft
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form the ability to evaluate art objects as a part of material and spiritual culture. Features of arts and crafts as a wide section of fine arts covering various branches of creative activity aimed at creating art products with utilitarian and artistic functions will be considered.

Classification, Systematization and Scientific Processing of the Monuments
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to give a general concept of historical monuments and to form their skills in the field of camera processing and preservation of various artifacts and monuments of material culture. Laboratory processing of artifacts obtained from field studies is one of the most important components of research work.

Ecology and Human Life Safety
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form a number of key competencies based on modern environmental management concepts that implement the principles of harmonious optimization of the conditions for human interaction with nature, including in the process of tourist and recreational activities.The following will be studied: the principles of sustainable development, conservation and reproduction of natural resources to ensure the safety of human life, methods for assessing and minimizing risks, protecting against dangers, including during travel, measures to eliminate the consequences of accidents, anthropogenic disasters, natural disasters, environmental protection and rational environmental management.

Entrepreneurship
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of practical skills for carrying out entrepreneurial activities. Student able to: use market opportunities that correspond to their interests and abilities; make an initial decision about business; work effectively within the framework of legal norms; evaluate the potential market opportunities of a startup.

Ethnography of Ethnic Groups of Kazakhstan
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to familiarize students with ethnography and the history of the formation of ethnic groups in Kazakhstan. To form representations about the features of material and spiritual cultures of ethnoses. When studying the discipline, the following aspects will be considered: The history and periods of the emergence of polyethnicity in Kazakhstan. Settlement of the Slavic ethnos on the territory of Kazakhstan. Bulgarians and Poles in the territory of Kazakhstan. Türkic peoples and Dungani of Kazakhstan.

Historical Local Studies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to familiarize students with the history and development of historical methods of history in Kazakhstan, by identifying the main directions of regional research and their impact on the development of the humanities, revealing the role of various sources in history.

Historical memory
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to introduce into the problem of non-governmental institutions working in the field of preserving and analyzing the memory of political repression in the USSR. The course content covers questions about the place and role of individual memories, the method of collecting and analyzing historical data, the forms of their representation, social trauma and historical politics.

History of the countries of the East
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to consider the history of the countries of the East in the context of world historical processes, to show the features of the socio-political, socio-economic and cultural development of the countries of the East. The course will cover the following aspects: phenomenon of the East: history of study and contemporary problems

History of Western countries
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to master the basic theoretical knowledge of the history of Western countries, the study of socio-economic, political and spiritual processes that determined the development of Western society and the general patterns of development in the process of its transition from the Middle Ages to industrial, and then to information civilization.

Informational Tecnologies in Museology and Heritage Protection
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Students will be able to master the general theoretical provisions of modern informatics in relation to museum activity, to get acquainted with the principles of computer processing of texts and images, to study experience of use of computer technologies for preservation, scientific and restoration activity, exposition, exhibition, popularisation and publishing of the museums, to get acquainted with the concrete systems applied in the museums, to examine experience of introduction of new information technologies in the foreign museums, experience of the international organizations.

Legal Bases of Corruption Control
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form a responsible attitude and the ability to demonstrate in practice the application of the principles and norms of anti-corruption legislation in order to prevent corruption offenses, to form intolerance towards corruption, an anti-corruption culture in everyday life and at the workplace, civil liability. The following will be studied: anti-corruption legislation, the system and activities of anti-corruption subjects, causes and conditions conducive to corruption, anti-corruption policy, international experience in combating corruption.

Methods of Research of Ethnographic Collections
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form basic skills in the scientific study of ethnographic materials, their classification and systematization. The role and principles of organizing field ethnographic expeditions as the main form of collecting ethnographic materials will be considered; method of ethnographic research, methods of expeditionary work.

Museography in System of Knowledge of Museum
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form the ability to criticize the most significant works on museum studies, the stages of the evolution of museum science. Will be considered: the peculiarities of museography, the main museographic works, the works of famous museum scholars and the works of major museums.

Museology of Kazakhstan
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to form an idea about the history of museology in Kazakhstan. Students will learn about its main stages, the appearance of the first museums, the modern museum network and the activities of major museums. The peculiarities of the domestic museology will be considered.

Practices of commemoration
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to study the problems of historical memory research as a socially and culturally rooted narrative of identity. The course examines such modalities of the social organization of historical memory as nationalism, empire, (post)socialism and neoliberalism, etc., forms, methods and places of memory, from narrative to non-verbal, cultural heritage and material objects.

Scientific Research Methods
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form competencies in the field of technologies for the organization and management of scientific research in professional activities.The study of the discipline is aimed at developing the skills of searching and analyzing information, formulating scientific problems, scientific substantiation of solutions, communications with the scientific community to solve production, organizational, research problems in the field of tourism and hospitality using modern information and communication technologies.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pre-diploma
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The goal of the practice is to form the ability to integrate the theory and methodology of technological and chemical disciplines to solve practical problems related to future professional activities. The practice is aimed at the formation of an independent solution to real problems in the field of chemical technology of inorganic substances using the competencies obtained in the course of mastering the educational program.

Production
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice is to form the ability to read flow charts of chemical production, to justify the choice of equipment, materials and design and design solutions on the example of a specific chemical enterprise, to implement the competencies obtained during the development of the module to perform production tasks during the practice. The practice is aimed at mastering the structure, regulations, equipment and materials of specific chemical industries.

Professional (field archaeological) practice
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description -

Data for 2021-2024 years