Master degree program
Geobotany

Geobotany

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Natural Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. To determine the content, methods and means of training sessions in accordance with the objectives of the course for the development of the curriculum and conducting lectures and practical classes, carrying out educational activities in professional educational institutions based on psychological and pedagogical principles;
2. To analyze biological, geobotanical patterns of biosystems' vital activity, based on the regularities and trends in the development of special activities for the production of scientific knowledge;
3. To explain the principles of the organization and functioning of science, the genesis and history of science from the point of view of the formation of its models, images and styles of thinking, interpreting the latest theories and concepts as confirmation of patterns and trends in the development of biological science;
4. To classify geobotanical works in accordance with regulatory and technical documentation, based on the selection of methods and technologies adequate to the tasks of research for the study of living organisms;
5. To analyze and comprehend the realities of modern theory and practice based on the history and philosophy of science, methodology of natural science, socio-humanitarian and technical knowledge, using for it the latest techniques, concepts and theories, technologies for solving fundamental problems in the field of biology, geobotany;
6. To apply knowledge of the self-consciousness of science in its socio-philosophical perspectives, the phenomenon of science as a profession, social institution and direct productive force, revealing the disciplinary self-determination of natural, social and technical sciences, their commonalities and differences; to search for scientific, technical and patent information necessary to substantiate the direction and subject of research;
7. To monitor natural resources, environmental management, and man-made risk areas, developing projects for the conservation of vegetation cover to solve practical problems of agriculture, geobotany based on methods of biology, geobotany;
8. To use application programs to solve various geobotanical problems, performing the collection and analysis of geobotanical research to study the natural resource potential of the country, individual regions and regions for the purpose of rational environmental management, based on the obtained results, develop academic programs for disciplines to be included in the educational process, presenting material in oral and written form for various audiences.
9. To apply practical skills in the field of geobotany in both field and laboratory conditions, designing and conducting comprehensive research based on a scientific worldview and the mastered research technologies in biology and biotechnology;
10. To develop a monitoring program for environmental control based on geobotanical research, structuring the research activities based on ethical and legal norms in relations between people and in relation to living organisms (principles of bioethics);

Program passport

Speciality Name
Geobotany
Speciality Code
7M05112
Faculty
Biology and Biotechnology

disciplines

Conservation of biological diversity and sustainable use of plant cover
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with a comprehensive understanding of biodiversity conservation and independent critical thinking about the rational use of vegetation cover. The discipline is aimed at studying the main issues of preserving and rationally using components of biological diversity, developing a strategy for nature management considering potential damage to biodiversity, mastering the legal framework for biodiversity conservation, and methods of controlling the extraction of biological resources.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • 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.

Geobotanical Research Methods
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with a comprehensive understanding of geobotanical research methods, its main branches, and associated issues in the context of their future professional activities. The discipline is aimed at creating various maps (geological, hydrogeological, soil, geobotanical, comprehensive), as well as conducting detailed descriptions of the territorial components of constructing reclamation objects.

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.

Indicator geobotany
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with a comprehensive understanding of indicator geobotany as a method of using vegetation cover to determine environmental conditions. The discipline is aimed at demonstrating knowledge of the specifics of geobotanical indicator research methods, vegetation, classifying methods for compiling geobotanical indicator maps, analyzing patterns of geobotanical indication in different climatic zones under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors.

Mapping
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students' skills in mapping various contours and structures that depict the distribution range of vegetation on a map. The discipline is aimed at reconnaissance surveys of territories, identifying plant communities, and mapping them using eye-level surveying methods, analyzing spatial distributions of communities, creating legends with elements of vegetation classification, map design, and interpreting maps in field conditions.

Monitoring of the environment
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to develop master's students' ability to describe environmental monitoring systems considering their future professional activities. The discipline focuses on explaining the characteristics of methods and tools of environmental monitoring, selecting methods for monitoring environmental objects and assessing their impact on the environment, analyzing the state of environmental objects, and creating vegetation conservation projects.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to apply practical skills in the organization and planning of scientific research. The discipline studies: forms and methods of planning, organization and design of scientific articles and dissertations; forms of summarizing the results of scientific research in presentations, speeches, projects, articles.

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.

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.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Brylology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline is to form master's students with a systematic understanding of bryology, its main branches, issues, and methods for future professional activities. The discipline is aimed at classifying methods of systematic identification of mosses, explaining the anatomical and morphological structure of bryophytes, describing the distribution and placement of mosses to navigate the diversity of the plant world.

Comparative Morphology of Higher Plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students' skills in independently conducting anatomical and morphological analysis of higher plants using quantitative and anatomical methods. The discipline is aimed at studying the relationships between plants and the environment, their anatomical adaptation to living conditions, as well as mastering the skills of preparing anatomical specimens and conducting eco-anatomical research.

Forest Vegetation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with a comprehensive systemic view of forest vegetation as one of the main components of a biogeocenosis or ecological system. The discipline is aimed at studying the peculiarities of forest formation in the context of future professional activities, understanding the basics of forest classification and to justify the importance of selecting tree species for urban and rural greening considering their soil and climatic conditions.

Geography of Plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with a comprehensive understanding of plant geography, focusing on the main issues and methods of their study in the context of future professional activities. The discipline is aimed at developing critical thinking and understanding of key concepts by examining the fundamental patterns of plant distribution and their communities on Earth, determined by ecological and geographical factors, as well as by considering the major phytogeographic regions and zonal vegetation types of different climatic zones.

Landscape Designing
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: the formation of a systematic understanding of landscape design among undergraduates, about its main sections, problems and methods for future professional activities. Educational outcomes: demonstrate knowledge of the basics of planning, style, zoning and territory design; understand the norms and rules of calculations when analyzing the design object, the features of the formation of the composition and the range of objects of landscape architecture of various categories.

Mapping
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students' skills in mapping various contours and structures that depict the distribution range of vegetation on a map. The discipline is aimed at reconnaissance surveys of territories, identifying plant communities, and mapping them using eye-level surveying methods, analyzing spatial distributions of communities, creating legends with elements of vegetation classification, map design, and interpreting maps in field conditions.

Phytotsenology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with a comprehensive, systematic understanding of phytocenology based on theoretical principles and practical results in the study of plant communities. The discipline is aimed at developing the ability for critical thinking and understanding the current state and trends in advancing the science of plant communities; explaining the structure of plant communities and the basic patterns of interaction among individual components in the phytocoenosis.

Poisonous plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with a comprehensive understanding of the diversity of poisonous plants, their beneficial and harmful properties in agriculture. The discipline focuses on studying the main objects used in biology and biotechnology, describing their habitats, and providing complete information about poisonous plants, toxic fungi, and lichens.

Population Genetics of Plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with an understanding of the principles of population genetics of organisms, theoretical and practical knowledge related to describing the main processes occurring in populations. The discipline is aimed at understanding scientific knowledge in population genetics; demonstrating knowledge of plant evolution processes, and using molecular genetic methods to assess the level of genetic diversity in populations and species.

Research Methods of Structure and Relationship of Cenopopulations in Phytocenoses
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with a comprehensive understanding of the problems and methods of studying the structure and relationships of cenopopulations in phytocenosis. The discipline is aimed at describing the species composition of plant cenopopulations, taking into account their ontogenetic features; explaining the specificity of defining the sample unit volume when studying cenopopulations of plants in different biomorphs; classifying methods for determining the survival rate of cenopopulations.

Soil Science
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline is to provide master's students with fundamental knowledge about the Earth's biocover - soil, as a natural body, its formation, properties, development, and evolution, as well as the patterns of geographical distribution, rational use, and conservation. The discipline is aimed at understanding the basic principles of soil formation and soil cover, as well as the patterns of zonal soil distribution, mastering methods of their study.

The Vegetation of Meadows and Floodplain
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with systematic knowledge about forest and meadow phytocenoses, their structure, and to demonstrate the complex relationships between plants and other components of the studied biogeocenosis. The discipline is aimed at mastering the continuous process of organic world development, using the example of phytocenosis succession, as well as familiarizing students with the main types of forests and meadows in Kazakhstan and the basics of forestry and meadow management.

The Vegetation of the Deserts and the Steppes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with an understanding of the floristic characteristics of desert and steppe plants, to assimilate the scientific principles of plant conservation, and to master the geobotanical general theoretical and practical principles and methods. The discipline is aimed at developing skills in working in field conditions using educational and laboratory facilities, for mastering modern methods of research and restoration of natural ecosystems.

Weed Plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form master's students with systematic knowledge about weeds and methods of their identification. The discipline is aimed at studying quarantine weeds with their biological characteristics, as well as parasitic weeds of crop fields. It aims to develop the ability to distinguish annual, biennial, and perennial weeds, classify methods of weed control, and justify the importance of agronomic measures in their elimination.

Data for 2021-2024 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 is to develop the ability to plan and conduct research work. The practice develops academic skills, including the preparation and conduct of research work, both individually and as part of research teams and structural units of scientific institutions. The research practice aims to collect and process large amounts of data (factual material) using modern information and communication technologies to carry out the research work. During the course of research practice students should be competent in: - plan research and development work; - to work with scientific literature independently: to annotate scientific sources, to make abstracts and reviews; - independently conduct scientific research in the field of language system and basic laws of literature development; - use modern information resources to solve research problems; - collect, process, analyze and systematize scientific information; - use innovative methods of domestic and foreign philological schools; - argumentatively present the results of scientific research; - prepare and edit scientific publications: theses, articles. During the course of research practice students will learn following aspects: Theoretical foundations of research work. Modern methods and techniques in philological research. Independent development of scientific and applied projects in the field of linguistics and literary criticism. Rule of formation of educational and methodical literature. Interpretation of the results of scientific research.

Data for 2021-2024 years