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Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Social Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. Apply interdisciplinary approaches in the study of contemporary cultural problems in the priority areas of research of cultural problems (postmodern, comparative, semiotic, etc.) related to the protection of the cultural heritage of indigenous people;
2. Summarize the results of the analytical and research work in the format of a scientific report, scientific article, information review and analytical report based on the methods of social sciences (content analysis, comparative method, questionnaire, etc.);
3. Participate in the preparation of expert opinions of the current objectives of cultural and cultural anthropological science on the problems of philosophy and theory of culture based on scientific tools (qualitative and quantitative methods, SWOT analysis and comparative studies);
4. Participate in the development of proposals and recommendations for the implementation of the modern models of socio-cultural modernization of regions and the country in order to implement the strategy for the development of Kazakhstan’s social system based on the use of BIG DATA, SPSS programs;
5. Apply the principles and provisions of cultural science for the development of a scientific project and a program for the implementation of its main ideas in order to modernize social and cultural institutions and organizations based on a systematic analysis, survey, interview, and focus group;
6. Systematize the basic principles, provisions and ideas for the programs of planning and organizing the research of actual problems of culture for the practical implementation of educational activities in cultural disciplines in higher education organizations;
7. Сollect empirical data to create a database on the socio-cultural situation in the country, generate scientific knowledge about various cultural phenomena and develop socio-cultural programs of a strategic and tactical nature based on using informational and digital technologies;
8. Critically evaluate current social problems for the provision of consulting services using methods of social modeling, expert analysis, frame analysis, etc.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Cultural Studies
Speciality Code
7M03106
Faculty
Philosophy and Political Science

disciplines

Basics of Socio-Cultural Design
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - the formation of the ability to analyze the historical, social, political conditions of relevance of socio-cultural design, role in the modernization of public life, evaluate education, social, national, gender differences of population groups, main methods of integrated assessment of socio-cultural projects, programs

Cultural and anthropological foundations and types of intercultural communication in the urban environment
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to conduct research on various types of intercultural communication, identifying its patterns and features of manifestation, interaction of different cultures, peoples, people; models, methods of intercultural communication in the urban environment, the place and role of the communicative act, the essence of dialogue, the influence of language, religion, worldview, mentality on the relationship of different cultures

Cultural expertise of historical and cultural heritage
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply the basic principles, methods for determining, establishing the cultural significance, degree of preservation of objects of cultural heritage, to identify the cultural value of cultural heritage objects using objective standards

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Intercultural Communication
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The study of the specifics of intercultural communication, the identification of its patterns and features of manifestation. Discipline studies the problem of interaction of different cultures, peoples, people; models, ways of intercultural communication, communicative act, dialogue, influence of language, religion, world outlook, mentality on interrelation of various cultures are considered.

Linguocultrology
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The training of a qualified specialist is to form the ability of undergraduates to critically assess the place, role of culture in creating a linguistic picture of the world, in substantiating the ethnic picture of the world, the role of language in inculturation, in preservation of linguistic, ethnic, cultural identity

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline provides tools for the formation of a number of general cultural and professional competencies: the ability to organize and conduct research; the ability to manage organizations, departments, groups of employees, projects; the ability to prepare analytical materials for the management of scientific processes and evaluation of their effectiveness.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Philosophy of culture of postmodernism
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of undergraduates to objectively assess the current state, the main trends in the development of the philosophy of culture of postmodernism, features of conceptual approaches in the study of culture, the main theoretical principles and ideas of representatives of the philosophy of culture of postmodernism, the formation of a critical assessment of the basic concepts, theoretical provisions of the philosophy of culture of postmodernism, its theoretical and practical significance, the ability to critically analyze the main texts

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Theories of intercultural communication
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to analyze various theories, conceptual apparatus, methods and principles of studying intercultural communication in order to identify patterns and features of its manifestation in order to preserve one’s own cultural identity.

Data for 2022-2025 years

disciplines

Antology and Methodology of Gender Researches
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability of undergraduates to apply methodological principles and conceptual approaches in analytics, interpretations gender aspects, distinctive features of theoretical and methodological approaches in the study of gender relations in modern society, problems of gender differences, gender strategies, gender equality, gender tolerance, intolerance, used in cultural studies

Contemporary theories in anthropology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to apply the basic methods, principles of studying the cultural diversity of modern societies, their gender, ethnic differentiation through consideration of regulatory formations in culture, ways of transferring cultural experience, the relationship between tradition and innovation in culture

Culture of Multimedia
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to analyze the sociocultural aspects of the formation and development of multimedia, multimedia products, means of their development, the use of multimedia technologies in various fields of activity, including in the field of education and culture

Digital Culture and Social Networks
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability of undergraduates to analyze visual practices, their institutions, audiences, technologies, cultural forms through a critical assessment of current trends in the development of electronic culture, social networks, the ability to systematize the results of research into various aspects of the information society, the state of the main information resources of modern culture, critical assessment of the possibilities of using media resources in the work of a cultural scientist.

Ecology of Culture
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability of undergraduates to analyze from an objective position the diversity of meanings of the concept of culture, various national and cultural platforms aimed at harmonizing the close relationships between man and society, man and nature, man and civilization, as well as ensuring the preservation of the cultural and spiritual heritage and existence in the surrounding world.

History and methodology of cultural media studies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability of undergraduates to conduct empirical research into the history of the formation of mass media, art history and cultural approaches to the study of mass media, to work with statistics, official materials, public opinion poll data, and mediametric indicators

Indigenous Culture, Heritage and Intellectual Property
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course is designed to provide with knowledge of the ideas, heritage of indigenous cultures, as well as the content, forms of preservation, the translation of the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples, their habitats, objective ways to preserve the uniqueness of their culture, the way of life of indigenous peoples

Indigenous Studies: Special Topics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course is intended to provide graduate students with the knowledge to summarize the knowledge and habits acquired previously in the course of studying the general course of through an in-depth solution of a number of problems: a study of the general and specific ethno cultural differences of indigenous peoples.

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to apply the categorical apparatus, the basic theoretical, methodological principles of cultural anthropology to the analysis of various cultural artifacts, critical assessment of theoretical positions, ideas of domestic, foreign cultural anthropology, to apply methods of comparative analysis of different cultures

Linguoculturology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to develop the ability to critically evaluate the place, role of culture in the creation of linguistic picture of the world, role of language in transmission of sociocultural information, in substantiating ethnic picture of the world, in application of theoretical principles of modern linguistic anthropology in study of language practices, modern methods of field anthropological work

Media, History, Society
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to analyze the phenomena of the information society and the possibility of using media resources in the work of a cultural scientist, various types of media technologies for the purpose of creating images in art, television, the Internet environment, the influence of media on the formation of cultural values, landmarks of national states, economic values ​​and participation population in politics

Modern studies of culture
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to conduct research on socio-cultural reality using various anthropological theories, skills of critical analysis, apply the methods of cultural analysis, field research, methodological apparatus of main anthropological theories to conduct comparative analysis of biological, social aspects of human behavior

Modern theories of project activities
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to analyze and evaluate the basic theory of project activities, ability to critically analyze the main theories on socio-cultural projects and an objective assessment of socio-cultural projects on the preservation and protection of the cultural code of Kazakhstan.

Myth and Life
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Analysis of various forms of culture of myth and life, types of myth, basic concepts of the theory of myth and philosophical problems of understanding and analysis the phenomena of the culture of myth, life. The course provides an opportunity to re-organize knowledge on the history and theory of culture.

Postmodernity & Visual Art Practice
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability of undergraduates to analyze various genres and styles of fine art of postmodernism; apply methods, principles of assessing a place, the role of postmodern fine art in modern culture, the influence of postmodern art on the perception of the surrounding reality, on the value system, on the behavior and communication of people, be able to apply the principles of analysis and interpretation of works of art of postmodernism

Sociology of Culture
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - To form an idea of the formation and current state of sociology of culture, socio-cultural practices; conceptual features, methodological approaches to analysis, understanding of tasks of cultural production as a means of ensuring social integration of history of origin, research approaches, world, domestic experience in analyzing problems of cultural development.

The theory of cultural heritage
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to analyze, evaluate the main historical stages of studying the cultural heritage in theoretical, methodological approaches; to analyze current problems, modern practices in the study, development of cultural, natural heritage sites in the near and far abroad

Theory and methodology of cross-cultural research
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to conduct a comparative analysis of the behavior of people belonging to different cultures in order to identify the connection between the characteristics of the psyche and culture, the differences in norms and values expressed at different levels, in explicit and implicit forms and elements of material and spiritual culture

Traditional musical culture of the Turkic peoples
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Training of qualified specialists based on the formation of the ability to analyze the achievements and values of the traditional musical culture of the Turks, new forms of musical practices, performance techniques, styles, directions, folk performers, the peculiarities of the traditional musical culture of the Turkic peoples

Data for 2022-2025 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2022-2025 years