Master degree program
Ethnology and Anthropology

Ethnology and Anthropology

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Arts

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. Possession of a wide erudition in the field of general scientific knowledge about a person and his social systems, as well as the ability to deeply understand the development processes of the social, humanities.
2.It is capable of improving knowledge and expanding the base of modern methodological principles and methodological techniques of historical, ethnological, cultural and socio-cultural studies.
3. Willingness to realize the importance of the role of their profession in society and its educational functions, willingness to participate in the scientific information coverage of the history and culture of the peoples of the world, their ethno-national traditions, popularize anthropological and ethnological knowledge.
4. Conduct field ethnological research using sociological and mathematical methods, process personal data and questionnaires, organize data, use audio-video, photo materials, as well as collect materials in archives, museums and libraries.
5. To carry out expertise for cultural centers on ethnic and ethnocultural issues, preserve historical and cultural values on the basis of comparative analysis, an interdisciplinary and systematic approach, historical and social methods using IT technology.
6. Willingness to organize projects aimed at countering nationalism, xenophobia and extremism, protecting the rights of national minorities, preserving their cultural heritage, as well as finding effective ways to resolve ethnopolitical, ethno-confessional social conflicts.
7. Develop strategic development programs in research, cultural institutions, departments of the department of culture with the aim of conducting scientific seminars, conferences, round tables, discussion clubs.
8. Conduct classes, conduct courses on theoretical and applied aspects of ethnology and anthropology using IT technology; to develop training and educational programs, guidelines, evaluative tools, conduct the educational process in museum institutions.
9. Able to carry out historical, cultural and historical-local history functions in the activities of organizations and institutions (laboratories, museums, etc.), including the selection and organization of exhibitions in the museum space.
10. To disseminate through the media, including electronic, film and television, truthful information about peoples, ethnic and cultural traditions.
11. To advise state and municipal, museum, educational institutions, travel companies in the preservation, popularization and presentation of events of the historical past from the point of view of the tasks of forming the national identity of the nation.
12. Willingness to lead a team in the field of their professional activity, tolerantly perceiving social, ethnic, confessional and cultural differences.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Ethnology and Anthropology
Speciality Code
7M02220
Faculty
History

disciplines

Anthropology of Religion
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to explain to undergraduates the connection of religion with human nature, with evolutionary, racial, ethnic, cultural characteristics. Anthropology of religion is a field of knowledge that studies anthropological theories of myth, traditions, the state and structure of the religiosity of the people, cognitive representations, ethological approach.

Ethnic conflictology
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form undergraduates a holistic view of the history, modern theoretical and practical approaches to the study of interethnic conflicts; the culture of interethnic communication; the ability to analyze interethnic conflicts, knowledge of methods for resolving interethnic conflicts.

Ethnic migrations and diasporas
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to acquaint undergraduates with the basic theories and problems of studying such phenomena of modern society as diaspora and ethnic migration, and on this basis prepare them for activities in conditions of constant interethnic interaction in all spheres of life.

Ethnicand Ethno-cultural Processesin Modern Kazakhstan
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to work with scientific, statistical and demographic materials on ethnic and ethno-cultural processes in the territory of modern Kazakhstan. The main stages of formation and development of a multi-ethnic society in Kazakhstan conceptual system of ethnic and ethno-cultural processes will be considered.

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.

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.

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 is the formation of the ability of pedagogical activity through the knowledge of higher education didactics, theories of upbringing and education management, analysis, and self-assessment of teaching activities. The course covers the educational activity design of specialists, Bologna process implementation, acquiring a lecturer, and curatorial skills by TLA-strategies.

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.

Sign systems of culture: ritual-religious and semiotic systems
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize the basics of semiotics as a scientific discipline of ethnological orientation. The following topics will be considered: familiarization with the methodological and conceptual apparatus of modern semiotics; study of the specifics of the methodology of semiotic research of culture in Ethnology.

Theoretical problems of traditional culture and modernizations
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to analyze the relationship between modernization and traditional culture. It will be considered the problems of traditional culture and modernization. The confrontation between "modern" and "traditional". Main features of traditional culture. Customs and rituals in traditional culture.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Anthropology of Religion
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to explain to undergraduates the connection of religion with human nature, with evolutionary, racial, ethnic, cultural characteristics. Anthropology of religion is a field of knowledge that studies anthropological theories of myth, traditions, the state and structure of the religiosity of the people, cognitive representations, ethological approach, etc.

Anthropology psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course - to acquaint undergraduates with the main parameters of the psychological dimension of cultures, differences in thinking and perception in different cultural environments; to master the cultural diversity of communication and the characteristics of verbal and non-verbal communication; an idea of the psychology of interethnic relations and mechanisms of intergroup perception.

Ethnic conflictology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form undergraduates a holistic view of the history, modern theoretical and practical approaches to the study of interethnic conflicts; the culture of interethnic communication; the ability to analyze interethnic conflicts, knowledge of methods for resolving interethnic conflicts.

Ethnography and folklore: theory of historical and comparative studies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to analyze research on the ethnographic and folklore heritages of the peoples of the world. It will be considered to the data from ethnic history and folklore science, Theoretical and applied problems in Ethnology and folklore.

Historical anthropology of the family and marriage of Kazakhs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to describe and evaluate General trends and patterns in the development of the modern Kazakh family. The following issues will be considered: current problems of family and marriage relations in mono and multi-ethnic regions of Kazakhstan. Internal and external relations of the family.

History of domestic ethnological science
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to form knowledge of theoretical aspects of the history of formation and development of Ethnology in Kazakhstan. The discipline is aimed to study theoretical aspects of the history of formation and development of Ethnology, historical origins of ethnographic science in Kazakhstan.

Monument studies: theory and practice
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability in the field of methodological principles and methods used. The course involves mastering special knowledge and types of source studies related to documenting and exhibiting monuments, with the preparation of projects for the formation of the historical and cultural environment.

Nomadism: Theory and History of Study
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability of undergraduates to analyze, critical thinking, as well as the ability to apply methodological foundations during the study of the discipline. The course involves mastering special knowledge and methodology for studying nomadism within the framework of theory and history.

Problems and methods of applied anthropology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the subject is to study applied anthropology as a special field, to provide knowledge about the stages of formation and development of applied anthropology as a specific field. The domestic experience of applied anthropology. The possibilities and limits of the application of socio-cultural knowledge to solve applied problems. Applied aspects of socio-cultural anthropology.

Sign systems of culture: ritual-religious and semiotic systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize the basics of semiotics as a scientific discipline of ethnological orientation. The following topics will be considered: familiarization with the methodological and conceptual apparatus of modern semiotics; study of the specifics of the methodology of semiotic research of culture in Ethnology.

The concepts of conservation, restoration, presentation and representation of cultural monuments
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form an idea of the typology of world civilizations, the specifics of the historical development of great civilizations of the past and present. It will be considered to bibliographic and archival research on archaeological and architectural monuments; historical and archival research.

Theoretical and methodological problems of Ethnology and anthropology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a complete system of students ' understanding of the theoretical and methodological problems of Ethnology, concepts of different scientific schools. The following aspects will be considered:theoretical and methodological foundations of Ethnology; interpretation of theoretical problems of Ethnology

Theoretical and methodological problems of ethnopolitics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop undergraduates' ability to describe and evaluate the relationship between ethnicity and politics. The subject includes interdisciplinary methodology on ethnopolitical issues, research problems and interpretation of research results on theoretical and applied aspects of ethnopolitics, the study of problems of ethnic processes in relation to political aspects.

Theoretical and methodological problems of sociocultural anthropology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to study the theoretical and methodological problems of socio-cultural anthropology, the concepts of various scientific schools, the definition of specific methods, as well as the identification, processing and analysis of information based on various sources.

Theory and methodology of studying gender aspects of ethnicity
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize the basics of genderology as a scientific discipline in the context of ethnological orientation. It will be considered the formation of understanding of the specifics of gender aspects of the functioning of traditional cultures of ethnic groups and their transformation.

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