Master degree program
Land Management

Land Management

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Engineering Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

ON1. to collect, process, analyze and systematize the initial data and scientific and technical information on the research topic, the choice of methods and means of solving problems, the development of projects and schemes of land management, land use planning;
ON2. apply modern methods of land management and economic mechanisms of rational use and protection of land for the rational distribution and use of land resources in different sectors of the economy, based on land legislation and sections of other branches of law relating to land, as real estate, ownership and use of natural resources, environmental component of nature, etc.
ON3. to develop work plans and programs for research and technical development, to organize the preparation of tasks for performers; to prepare tasks for the development of projects and schemes of territorial, landscape planning, urban planning and land management; thematic models of forecasting, planning and management of land resources and real estate;
ON4. apply methods: landscape design and planning in land management, taking into account environmental aspects; remote sensing for data collection for the development of land management projects for the rational use and protection of land;
ON5. to develop projects of inter-farm and on-farm land management with economic feasibility with the requirements of environmental and land legislation, organize land records to carry out activities on land management, to ensure the safe conduct of operations;
ON6. to develop projects and schemes of rational use and protection of lands of administrative-territorial formations, land users and landowners and to carry out explanatory works on rational and effective land use, on protection of lands before any audience and to scientifically prove the decisions made by it on land management;
ON7. conduct monitoring, inventory and evaluation of land and real estate on the basis of technical,economic and socio-environmental analysis of the effectiveness of projects and schemes of land management in accordance with standards, specifications and regulations, to create a geodatabase for the automated systems of designing and management of land resources;
ON8. conduct monitoring studies of natural and land resources and other objects on the basis of remote sensing methods and geoinformation technologies for land management purposes, use for research purposes methods of economic and mathematical modeling and forecasting for territorial planning, development of agriculture, rural areas

Program passport

Speciality Name
Land Management
Speciality Code
7M07304
Faculty
Geography and Environmental Sciences

disciplines

Actual problems of land management and cadastre
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to identify problems and ways to solve the main tasks of land management and cadastre, taking into account modern issues of land use and land relations. The discipline is aimed at studying the current state of development of land relations in the world and Kazakhstan, complex problems of land use and land cadastre.

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.

Geoinformation technologies and space monitoring in land management
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to master the skills of conducting research and organizational and managerial activities in the field of the use of geoinformation technologies and space monitoring in land and property relations, to train specialists who possess modern innovative information technologies capable of conducting a comprehensive assessment and giving an expert opinion on the entire range of issues related to land management.

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.

Land -information systems in land resources management
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to organize the processing and storage of land cadastral digital information. The discipline is aimed at studying the creation of databases on the state of land resources, information support and support for programs for the rational use of land resources, optimal planning for the development of territories.

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.

Planning and organization of rational use of lands and their protection
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to improve the organization and planning of the rational use of land and their protection. The discipline is aimed at studying ways to improve planning for the rational use of land, a system of environmental measures to protect land from negative impacts, assessing the environmental, economic and social effectiveness of planning measures

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.

Real estate management and integrated development of territories
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to master skills in the field of real estate management, legal and methodological support for the integrated development of urban areas, modern technologies for conducting land management and cadastral works, creating cadastral databases, as well as the ability to create the necessary conditions for the development, transport, social, engineering infrastructure of landscaping, environmental improvement.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Assessment of agricultural land
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply the methodological foundations and recommendations for economic evaluation of agricultural land. The discipline is aimed at the study of: conceptual foundations, factors affecting the assessment of land and the efficiency of agricultural land use; application of indicators, methods of land assessment, approaches to land valuation.

Economic and Mathematical Modeling optimization of territorial organization
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to use methods of economic and mathematical modeling to optimize the territorial organization of agricultural production, taking into account the agroecological properties of the earth. The following will be studied: organizational and territorial conditions that contribute to increasing the yield of agricultural crops, improving soil fertility; optimal plans of production resources associated with the land, contributing to the achievement of production volumes at minimum cost of labor and money.

Geoecological Support of Land Use Planning
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to solve practical problems in the field of land management design on the basis of geoecological approach. The discipline is aimed at the study of: methodology, regulatory framework and principles of design and survey works; the main tasks and sequence of land management design; sanitary-hygienic and micro-climatic factors in the design of facilities, environmental rehabilitation of natural areas in cities and agglomerations, reclamation of disturbed lands.

Improvement of the legislative base in land management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to improve land legislation in part to address the issues of territorial planning and the organization of rational use of land and their protection. The discipline studies: the establishment of the order of land management and the development of land management documentation, coordination of the activities of state bodies of executive power, local self-government bodies; control of land management activities.

Innovative activities in land management and cadastres
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of a complex of theoretical knowledge in the field of legal, organizational, economic and managerial aspects of the organization of innovative activities at the enterprise. Proficiency in the development of new approaches, methods and technologies in the field of land management - skills in monitoring the market of new developments, methods, techniques and technologies in the field of land management

Land information systems for solving applied problems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the skills of accounting, condition and use of land plots is impossible without the availability of high-quality information support and the availability of reliable and modern cartographic materials. The availability of modern information support about the land plot, as well as the compilation of reliable cartographic materials, allows not only to monitor the condition of the land plot, but also makes it possible to use it favorably for construction, agricultural and other types of work. In addition, the availability of information and cartographic support for a land plot is an essential element for creating cadastral and reference documentation. Land monitoring based on the use of space technologies will help to solve the tasks of providing a land plot with important, accurate and maximally useful cartographic and information documentation.

Land management expertise
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is aimed at acquiring the skills of conducting land management expertise as a mandatory element in the management system of land resources and real estate. Undergraduates will study modern methods of determining the characteristics of land plots, organizational and managerial decisions in the organization and conduct of practical activities in land management and cadastres.

Landscape-Ecological Design of Land Use
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of the organization of landscape and ecological design of land use, taking into account environmental indicators of the environment. The discipline is aimed at the study of: the principles of regulatory and legislative framework of landscape and environmental design; EIA for the design of space, zoning of urban areas, the design of urban landscape and natural and recreational facilities; integrated environmental-economic and landscape-ecological approach in conducting land management activities.

Modern organization of the territory of agro-formations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to analyze the structure of fertility and design the distribution of agro-industrial units. The discipline is focused on the study: land management activities on the use of the territory depending on its features; land improvement projects; organization of territories under the influence of external natural and anthropogenic factors, creation of agro-landscapes and their components with the account of the mode of use.

Photogrammetric methods for solving applied problems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of mastering the discipline is the professional orientation of students in the field of acquiring knowledge about the physical foundations of the production of aerial and space surveys, the geometric properties of images, photogrammetric processing and decryption of images, as well as skills in applying remote sensing data in land management and cadastres. As a result of the study, undergraduates will master the theoretical and practical basics of using remote sensing data to create plans and maps used in land management and cadastral works, information support for land monitoring.

Processing and analysis of land management information based on GIS
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to use geoinformation technologies to improve the efficiency of processing, analyzing information from land management and cartographic documents. The discipline is aimed at applying: the skills of collecting, storing and manipulating spatial and attributive data in order to improve selectivity, the use of GIS to improve the efficiency of processing and analyzing information; the possibilities of applied programs in land management design, software in solving land management problems.

Project management for sustainable spatial development
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide students with theoretical knowledge about the essence and methods of managing sustainable spatial development projects, about project activities, evaluating the effectiveness of choosing a particular technology with subsequent application in the professional field, as well as practical skills (formation) and readiness for independent development and their application as part of the territory development project team to solve communication problems in in the professional field of spatial development project management. As a result, undergraduates will be able to organize research and research, planning and design of the development of territories in relation to a specific territorial object in order to ensure its sustainable development.

Space monitoring of the earth
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop skills in applying the method of systematic monitoring of the state of land resources by remote sensing of the earth from space and the use of geoinformation systems (GIS). As a result, undergraduates will be able to solve problems related to the processing of spatial data based on GIS tasks that are important for agricultural activities: creation of a state land cadastre; compilation of statistical reports on the land fund; monitoring the condition of agricultural land; assessment of the exact size of arable land and their productivity; assessment of the terrain, weather, climatic and hydrological conditions; yield forecast; monitoring of harvesting and growth dynamics of agricultural crops; assessment of soil fertility; identification of negative soil processes, analysis of the consequences of emergency situations, etc.

Sustainable development of rural areas
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form land management solutions by integrating fundamental and applied knowledge in the field of sustainable development of rural areas. The discipline is aimed at studying land management solutions by integrating fundamental and applied knowledge in the field of sustainable development of rural areas and organizing the territory of agro-formations for the implementation and achievement of sustainable development goals.

The economic mechanism for the application of land and real estate valuation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a system of theoretical, methodological and practical foundations of the ecological and economic mechanism for justifying the effective use and assessment of land, taking into account the requirements of environmental protection and market economy. As a result, undergraduates will master the skills of conducting a systematic analysis and determining the organizational and economic aspects of the functioning of land resources, performing an analysis of various taxation systems of the territory; -conducting an economic assessment of urban and rural lands, taking into account the market economy.

The economic mechanism of rational use and protection of land
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the development of an economic mechanism for regulating land relations, reflecting differences in soil quality, depending on natural and artificial fertility, natural and climatic conditions of the area, the location of land plots that affect such important indicators as gross output, gross and net income, profit. As a result of the study, undergraduates will be able to apply methods of analysis and synthesis, a systematic approach, logical in order to ensure the rational use and protection of land, protection of the rights of owners, land users and tenants.

The practice of sustainable development in urban planning
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to master the basic principles of sustainable urban development in social, economic, environmental, and urban planning aspects. Familiarization with methodological developments related to investing in the development of the territory, financing the development of basic infrastructure, taking environmental measures, and introducing principles of land use regulation.

Theoretical and Methodological Basis of Land Use Regulation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to develop theoretical and methodological foundations of ecological and economic justification of the organization of rational use of land. The discipline is aimed at the study of: theoretical and methodological foundations of an effective system of state land management and the formation of cost-effective and environmentally safe land use; development of land relations and land use practices to improve land and property relations.

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: 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