Master degree program
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

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 is to acquire and improve competencies by international standards of foreign language education and to communicate in an intercultural, professional, and scientific environment. A master's student must integrate new information, understand the organization of languages, interact in society, and defend his point of view.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Understanding of modern philosophy as a system of scientific knowledge, including worldview in rational-theoretical comprehension. The discipline includes aspects of the evolution and development of scientific thinking, historical moments, the contribution of scientists and scientific schools to the formation of science, and ethical and social aspects of scientific activity.

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 - Purpose: To provide pedagogical theories and practical strategies for effective teaching in higher education, fostering critical thinking, and academic success. The course explores instructional methods, curriculum design, assessment techniques, and classroom management strategies preparing educators to create inclusive and stimulating learning environments.

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, main trends in the development of the philosophy of culture of postmodernism, features of conceptual approaches in study of culture, the main theoretical principles, ideas of representatives of philosophy of culture of postmodernism

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Formation of knowledge about the fundamental concepts of management psychology for the practical application of the most critical aspects of management in professional interaction. Basic principles of management psychology, personality in management interactions, management of personality behavior, modern ideas, psychology of managing group phenomena, motivation, and practical reflection.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Antology and Methodology of Gender Researches
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - To expand knowledge of methodology and develop skills of analytical interpretation of gender aspects of modern society. The discipline "Ontology and methodology of gender studies" will provide knowledge of the distinctive features of theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of gender aspects of modern society used in cultural research.

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

Digital Culture and Social Network
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to analyze visual practices, their institutions, audiences, technologies, cultural forms through critical assessment of modern trends in the development of electronic culture, social networks, the ability to systematize the results of research on various aspects of the information society

Ecology of Culture
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to develop the ability to analyze the diversity of meanings of concept of culture, the wealth of different spheres of culture, to critically evaluate various the desire for productive communication between representatives of different cultures in preservation of ecological landmarks in ethnic picture of world.

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

Media, History, Society
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Analysis of the phenomenon of the information society, the possibilities of using media resources in the work of a culturologist. The course provides problem of the main processes of development of modern society with emphasis on its information component, thе impact of informatization, digitalization on the processes of inculturation, socialization

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

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 course provides development of skills for analysis and interpretation of the fine arts of postmodernism; studying the features of the fine arts of postmodernism as a phenomenon of modern culture, the principles of analysis and interpretation of works of art of postmodernism; using the methods for determining the aesthetic.

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 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of the ability to carry out educational activities in universities, to design the educational process and conduct certain types of training sessions using innovative educational technologies.

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 2021-2024 years