Master degree program
Museum Studies and Monuments Protection

Museum Studies and Monuments Protection

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Arts

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

Upon completion of this program, it is expected that trainees will be able to:
1. Interpret modern scientific knowledge when planning and organizing independent scientific and methodological museological research;
2. To present promising trends in the development of research work, its planning, organization and writing of scientific research;
3. Use in research thematic network resources, databases, information retrieval systems;
4. To evaluate the role and importance of museum activities in the scientific development of the surrounding reality, in the sociocultural dynamics of society;
5. Generate knowledge gained in the humanities and social sciences in the implementation of expert and analytical work;
6. Apply various methodologies and applied skills (including restoration and conservation) of natural sciences and humanities in the creation of museum exhibits, exhibitions and research works;
7. Apply teaching materials, regulations, acts, internal regulations in museum and research organizations;
8. Apply methodical techniques of research on the history of art and the protection of monuments, organize cultural, educational, expert-analytical and organizational-management activities;
9. Organize work in the field of historical and cultural expertise, reception and storage of monuments of historical and cultural heritage;
10. To carry out museum-pedagogical activity, to make its own original contribution in the field of museology, protection of monuments and art history;
11. Use modern methodological principles and methodological techniques of museological research;
12. Demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate a wide range of information related to the activities of museums and the protection of historical, cultural and natural heritage, to cooperate and work in a team.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Museum Studies and Monuments Protection
Speciality Code
7M02212
Faculty
History

disciplines

Attribution and Examination of Museum objects
  • 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 methodology, methods of scientific attribution, examination of artifacts of material culture in a historical context. The course reveals the problems of methods of processing and describing museum objects, forms undergraduates' skills in maintaining relevant museum documentation, forms initial practical skills of attribution and expertise; the ability to justify the criteria for choosing and applying a differentiated approach to various types of monuments depending on the material, technical and technological features of its manufacture and decoration.

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.

Interdisciplinary research in the museum
  • 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 knowledge about the interdisciplinary interaction of museology with other natural sciences and humanities to solve problems and tasks of museology. In the course of training, undergraduates will study the interaction of museum business with such sciences as geography, archeology, ethnography, anthropology, as well as pedagogy, psychology, information theory, source studies. The factors and circumstances of museology in the space of interdisciplinary interaction, their role and significance will be considered.

Modern Problems of World Museum Space
  • 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 knowledge and skills to solve the problems of modern museology in the conditions of informatization and modernization of society, as well as constantly updated information in all areas of museum activity. The discipline examines the issues of theory, practice and problems facing museum institutions as a special social institution.

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.

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.

The Theory and Practice of Museum Communications
  • 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 apply the theory of communication in practical and scientific activities in the field of museum business and monument protection. The discipline studies the theory of communication and information theory, the theory of museum communication, models of museum communication, the act of museum communication and its interpretation in domestic and foreign museology.

Theory, methodology and practice of socio-cultural project
  • 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 special knowledge, skills and skills in the field of theory and practice of socio-cultural design, to develop socially significant projects. The content of the course includes information about the concept, entity, object, purpose, tasks, priority areas of design, methods of collective work on projects, development and presentation of projects, peculiarities of project activity, logic, technology and principles of formation of museum projects.

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disciplines

Cartography and typology of historical and cultural heritage,
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the skills of using mapping when studying monuments, as well as conducting various types of surveys on the ground, creating maps. General concepts of cartography, small-scale geographical maps and their application, methods of working with natural and historical monuments, types of their typology are studied.

Conservation and Restoration of archeological and ethnological collections
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop skills in the use of means and methods of conservation and restoration of museum materials. The discipline is devoted to the problems of preserving archaeological and ethnographic objects in the museum space by creating certain storage modes. The basic principles and techniques of restoration of museum materials are also considered.

Description and Analysis of Art Works
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the course is to develop the skills of formal and stylistic and meaningful descriptions and compositional analysis of works of painting, sculpture and graphics. Discipline studies the methods of describing and analyzing works of art their connection with the cultural and historical context. The peculiarities of the principles of description and analysis of works created according to the laws of religious and mythological canons are explained, the conventionality of the artistic language of form is explained, the symbolism of images. It acquaints with the terminological and conceptual apparatus of art history, examines the typology of canonical works, paintings, sculptures, graphics and arts and crafts.

Excursion management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to create a knowledge on the theory and methodology of management, as well as methods for studying management processes; development of skills of students to think and analyze the main content of management activities and practical work using the acquired knowledge in enterprises and organizations.

Historical, Cultural and Natural Heritage of RK: History and Methodology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply theoretical and historical knowledge in applied research, to consider the principles and methods of research on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the process of mastering the discipline, a holistic view of the historical, cultural and natural heritage is formed as an instrument for the formation of historical consciousness, about the traditions and the current state of the theory and practice of the protection and use of historical and cultural heritage.

Innovations in Museology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of undergraduates to apply innovative methods in museology. The discipline is devoted to the study of innovation as a socio-cultural process in museums of various profiles. Considerable attention will be paid to modern innovative technologies, the forms of their existence and application in museum activities, the features of innovative projects in museum services.

Legal Bases of Protection of Monuments
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop skills of working with legislative documents in the field of monument protection, as well as to apply the knowledge gained in professional activities. The laws "On Culture", "On Education", "On Tourism activities", as well as regulatory documents of international organizations such as ICOM, ICOMOS, ICCROM will be considered.

Marketing of Tourist Dastination
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic idea of ​ ​ modern concepts for promoting tourist destinations. The main tasks of destination marketing, the structure of tourist destination, the key stages of strategic marketing planning in the formation and development of destination, the identification of target groups of tourists, the formation and adaptation of the tourist product in accordance with their needs will be studied.

Methodology of Art History
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the course is to familiarize the undergraduates with the main research methods and approaches that have been worked out by art history for two hundred years of its development. As part of teaching the discipline, a historical description of the origin, composition and disappearance of various methods is proposed, as well as an overview of the current state of the methodology of art history. The main sections of the course: the initial period of the history of art, the science of art in the Renaissance (Vasari, Karel van Maander, Zandrart), baroque and classicism in the history of art history, the beginning of the history of art as a science (Winckelmann, Goethe, Wackenroder), cultural and historical school Tön, Fromanten, Burckhardt), scholarship, formal-stylistic method (Wolfflin), Vienna School of Art Studies (Riegl, Dvorak), semiotics in art history, art criticism, psychological approaches to art, sociology of art.

Monument studies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of undergraduates' skills in the application of methodological principles and methods in monument studies. The discipline studies the problems of accounting, preservation, identification of social significance, restoration and use of various monuments.

Musefication of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Republic Kazakhstan
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to apply the theories and concepts of museification of monuments of architecture, history, archeology, as well as material and intangible culture. The discipline reveals the theoretical foundations of the museification of monuments, their classification and functions, the main stages and features of the museification of various types of heritage objects.

National and Regional Tourism Planning
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Goal: to develop the ability to define the guidelines for formulation and decision-making in field of national/regional tourism planning. Will be studied: importance, approaches, hierarchy, structure, models of tourism planning at national and regional level, experience in strategic and operational planning, planning of institutional elements and tourism market, financing of tourism development.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research in the field of museology and monuments
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main goal of the course is to master knowledge of laws, principles, concepts, terminology, content, specific features of the organization and management of scientific research. In the process of mastering the discipline, the master student acquaints himself with the most important stages of scientific research work, its planning. Organization and writing of scientific research. Becomes acquainted with the practice of using methods of scientific knowledge; The study of the mechanism of scientific research and analysis. Studying of standards and norms on registration of results of scientific researches, preparation of scientific reports, publications for seminars and conferences; Consideration of procedures for searching in global networks of information on scientific developments, opportunities for scientific contacts, submitting applications for scientific grants of various levels. Upon completion of the study of the discipline, the undergraduates will have the following competencies: To know: the most important stages of scientific research, its planning and organization; To be able: to apply skills of the independent organization, planning at a writing of scientific research; To apply skills of writing of various kinds of written works; Master the methods of presentation of scientific materials and the formation of a manuscript of scientific work, as well as registration of the master's thesis.

Phaleristics, Heraldry and Sphragistics in the System of Museum Fund
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to study the subjects of heraldry, faleristics and sphragistics in the system of museum funds, their history and description, the characteristics of this type of objects as museum sources. The peculiarities of the formation of collections of faleristics, sphragistics, heraldry in the museums of Kazakhstan are revealed, the problems of their study and preservation as special kinds of museum objects are raised. Magistrates will study faleristics and sphragistics as auxiliary historical disciplines necessary for the examination of museum items. The set of knowledge and skills set out in the discipline constitutes the theoretical basis for the creation of museum collections, dating of subjects in accordance with the latest requirements of the development of science.

Restitution of cultural property
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form the ability to analyze the process of development and formation of the institution of restitution of cultural property in historical retrospect. The concepts of restitution and substitution, the problems of displacement, return and restoration of cultural property are being studied. The mechanism of the institution of restitution under international conventions is being considered.

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