Master degree program
Forensic-prosecutorial and Investigative Activity

Forensic-prosecutorial and Investigative Activity

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Legal Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

ON 1 To argue the reasons affecting the formation of civil law, criminal law in Kazakhstan.
Explain through an analysis of the main criminal law measures, the implementation of criminal policy in this area, ways to solve problems, as well as the improvement of national criminal and criminal procedure legislation.
Identify key concepts, institutions of civil, criminal law, civil procedure and criminal procedure law.
ON 2 Identify topical issues of civil litigation.
Disclose the main issues related to out-of-court dispute resolution procedures.
Interpret the main categories, the basic institutions of criminal law.
Streamline the procedure for handling criminal cases.
Determine the main directions of international cooperation in the field of criminal justice.
ON 3 Demonstrate evidence of evidence in criminal and civil proceedings.
Analyze the problems of legal regulation of the implementation of the judiciary.
Practice basic theoretical approaches to innovations in the conduct of covert investigative actions.
ON 4 To conduct a comparative analysis of criminal cases involving jurors of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the countries of the CIS, Europe, America and other foreign countries.
Formulate the causes of problems with the implementation of the activities of the investigating judge.
Assess the features of the organization of the investigation - planning this process, typical investigative versions, actions of the investigator in typical investigative situations.
ON 5 To analyze the problems of criminal responsibility for criminal offenses against justice and the procedure for the execution of sentences.
Use the correct understanding of the role of the bodies of inquiry, preliminary investigation, prosecutors and the court in the aspect of compensation for harm caused by illegal actions of law enforcement officers.
To determine the organizational and legal aspects of investigative activity.
ON 6 Formulate the terms of the main trial.
Use measures of procedural coercion.
Apply measures to ensure the safety of persons involved in legal proceedings.
To critically evaluate the development trends of criminal and criminal procedure legislation.
ON 7 Simulate the production of investigative actions and covert investigative actions.
Analyze the regulatory legal acts regulating the activities of the prosecution authorities.
Explain the content of procedural guarantees of the rights of the participants in the proceedings.
ON 8 Analyze tactical and forensic aspects of investigative activities.
Use the basic methods, methods and recommendations for the detection and investigation of criminal offenses against justice and the procedure for the execution of sentences.
Use the existing legal and organizational mechanism to ensure the rights of citizens in legal proceedings.
ON 9 Recommend specific proposals to improve the criminal, criminal procedure legislation.
Formulate conclusions, suggestions and recommendations for solving actual problems of organizing the activities of law enforcement agencies.
Predict theoretical and practical problems related to the organization of the investigation of criminal offenses.
ON10 Develop recommendations to improve civil, civil procedure legislation.
Develop qualified legal opinions and advice on the implementation of prosecutorial oversight of the legality of the pre-trial stage of the criminal process.
Decide on a controversial scientific issue and find ways to resolve problem situations in the criminal law field.
ON11 Offer specific suggestions for improving juvenile proceedings.
To assess the reasonable proposals for improving the activities of the prosecution authorities, pre-trial proceedings.
To organize scientific research using the provisions of the existing criminal, criminal procedure, civil, civil procedure legislation, to be capable of fruitful research and scientific-pedagogical activity.
Decide on a controversial scientific issue and find ways to resolve problem situations in the criminal law, civil law field.
ON12 Present information technologies in civil law, criminal law and other areas.
To present the results of the work done in the form of reports, articles, designed in accordance with the existing requirements, with the involvement of modern editing and printing tools.
To propose management decisions related to the activities of law enforcement agencies, prosecution authorities, the court on the problem of compliance with the law, the protection and restoration of human and citizen rights and freedoms, the legitimate interests of legal entities, society and the state.
Convince opponents in the most likely areas of scientific thought in the field of civil, criminal justice.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Forensic-prosecutorial and Investigative Activity
Speciality Code
7M04213
Faculty
Law

disciplines

Actual problems of legal regulation of judicial power realization
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies the constitutional foundations of the judiciary of the Republic of Kazakhstan; the principles of justice, the composition and structure of the judicial system; the main directions of reforming the judicial system; the problems of modern legal regulation of the courts and the legal status of judges.

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

Jury trial as a guarantee of citizens`s right to a fair trial
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at the ability to apply normative legal acts in the field of court activities with the participation of jurors, to implement the norms of procedural and material activities, to perform the necessary procedural actions and to draw up appropriate procedural acts arising in court proceedings.

Modern problems of protection of citizen`s rights in legal proceedings
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies issues of protection of citizens' and human rights at all stages of legal proceedings; basic human rights and obligations in legal proceedings; theoretical and practical problems of human rights in the realities of reforms regulating the mechanism of protection of citizens' rights in legal proceedings.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies general problems of organization and planning of legal scientific research; methods of scientific research in legal disciplines; organization of scientific research in legal disciplines; planning of scientific research in legal disciplines; approbation and registration of scientific research.

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 is to form the research culture of the future specialist, and to study the theoretical and methodological principles of organizing research activities in the context of the development of science and society. The discipline is aimed at developing the ability to conduct independent scientific research using methods and techniques of analysis, and information scientific resources.

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.

Theoretical and practical problems of the Prosecutor`s activities
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies the law enforcement problems of the activities of the prosecutor's office in civil and criminal proceedings; the measures of the prosecutor's response used to identify violations of laws and their elimination, other powers of the prosecutor's office in civil and criminal proceedings.

Theoretical problems of proof in criminal and civil proceedings
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying the theory of cognition as a methodological basis for the theory of evidence and its legal analysis, which determine the conditions for the formation of evidentiary information, its preservation and processing; features of procedural evidence in certain categories of civil and criminal cases.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Actual problems of civil law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is necessary for the study of civil legislation, protection of civil rights and interests of subjects of civil law relations. The subject of the discipline is the norms of law governing public civil relations, emerging in the process of applying the norms of civil law and theoretical concepts.

Actual problems of criminal law
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies the basic principles of the science of criminal law; the doctrine of crime; the doctrine of punishment; the system of punishments and the problems of its improvement; the problems of exemption from responsibility and punishment; determining the signs of criminal acts in the actions of certain persons.

Actual problems of investigative actions
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies the essence, distinctive features of investigative actions, the ratio of investigative and procedural actions, the system, grounds and procedure for conducting an investigative action, the legal status of participants in the investigative action and the conditions that ensure the effectiveness of the investigative action.

Institutional-legal and tactical aspects of improving investigative activities
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies the history of formation and development, the essence and content of investigative activities of the Republic of Kazakhstan; the current state of legal regulation of investigative activities; the main directions and trends of further development of investigative activities and the use of tactical influence in criminal proceedings.

International cooperation in criminal proceedings
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to correctly apply the generally recognized principles and norms of international law, evaluate the activities of international organizations engaged in combating crime, and make requests for various types of legal assistance in criminal proceedings.

Liability for damage caused by illegal actions of bodies of inquiry, preliminary investigation, Prosecutor`s office and court
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course of discipline is aimed at studying legal decisions arising as a result of causing harm by inquiry, preliminary investigation, prosecutor's office and court, determining the grounds and conditions of legal liability, applying regulatory legal acts regulating relations arising in connection with causing harm.

Out-of-court dispute resolution procedures
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to correctly apply out-of-court dispute resolution procedures in practice, to develop drafts of legal documents, to conduct negotiations, oral consultations on legal issues of organization, conduct, selection of the type and form of out-of-court dispute resolution procedures.

Problems of criminal liability for criminal offenses against justice and the order of execution of punishments
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies the problems of distinguishing criminal offenses against justice and the order of execution of punishments from related compositions; features of the classification of crimes against justice; criminological characteristics of criminal offenses against justice and the order of execution of punishments and the application of procedural legislation.

Prosecutorial supervision over the legality of the pre-trial stage of the criminal proceedings
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies issues of maintaining public prosecution and consideration of appeals of participants in criminal proceedings; problems of supervision over the legality of covert investigative actions; issues of the prosecutor's response to violations of the constitutional rights of citizens and the legal basis of the prosecutor's office.

Theoretical and practical problems of civil proceedings
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course forms theoretical concepts of civil procedural law, comprehensively examines individual institutions in the field of legal regulation of civil proceedings with both previously existing and new legislation, examines current problems of its regulation in order to form an independent position and a stable theoretical base for undergraduates.

Theoretical and practical problems of criminal proceedings
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies theoretical and practical problems of criminal proceedings; problems of judicial control; problems of pre-trial proceedings; the system of procedural decisions in criminal proceedings and apply the norms of criminal procedure legislation to specific situations in theoretical and practical aspects.

Theoretical and practical problems of the investigating judge
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies the legal basis of the activity of an investigative judge at the stage of pre-trial proceedings, by differentiating procedural functions, the concept of judicial control, the legal status of an investigative judge and making decisions on petitions received from criminal prosecution and defense authorities.

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