Master degree program
Social Work

Social Work

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1.use scientific worldview methods based on various cognitive strategies;
2. understand the principles of organization and functioning of languages
3. apply modern and innovative (including digital) educational technologies;
4. analyze methodological problems of psychological analysis of management processes and phenomena
5. formulate the main provisions of theory and methodology in social work;
6. evaluate methodological approaches, carry out their critical analysis and, if necessary, propose new hypotheses;
7. apply existing knowledge and practical understanding of research methods and their analysis in social work to create and interpret new knowledge, solve addictive problems;
8. demonstrate independence and an original approach to solving problems, independently plan and solve tasks at a professional level in the field of social services;
9. carry out preventive work with people with various types of addictions;
10. to identify the principles of effective organization and functioning of the activities of state management bodies, ways of conducting organizational, managerial and administrative work in the field of social policy, social protection of the population;
11. have creative thinking and a personal position of a specialist in assessing social problems, and a comprehensive understanding of innovative technologies that develop social activity;
12. to use personal qualities and skills necessary for successful employment and requiring initiative and personal responsibility

Program passport

Speciality Name
Social Work
Speciality Code
7M11401
Faculty
Philosophy and Political Science

disciplines

Actual problems of the Theory and Methodology of Social Work
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline systematize knowledge about the theory and methodology social work as a science and practice, as a field knowledge and practical activity aimed at meeting human needs ensuring social changes in society. Following aspects are considered during the study: Construction theory social work. Practical significance social work theory

Analysis and assessment of social program
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form ideas about social project activities special area social work, based on forecasting social needs society, analyzing problems system social protection population. Following aspects are considered during the study: social protection system as an object social programs. Political analysis, assessment, examination. Use knowledge in politics management

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • 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.

Interviewing, audition and consulting
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim course is to form the correct attitude application ethical rules conduct for interviewing and counseling a client among undergraduates, a correct understanding concept client support. Following aspects are considered during study: concept goals interviewing. Types interview questions. Skills and skills required for interviewing. Stages counseling.

Organization and planning of scientific research
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose e is to give the graduate a general idea of the principles and methods research work that are necessary for him in subsequent performance master's thesis. Following aspects are considered during the study: Science its role in the development society. Structure of scientific knowledge. Dynamics science. Methodology scientific knowledge.

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.

Research Design in Social Work
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to study the skills of independent creative professional activity in the field of social work, the formation of a system of attitudes, beliefs and competencies necessary for the leader of a research project in social work. The discipline considers issues related to the theoretical foundations and prerequisites for the formation and development of research design in the social sphere, the development of skills for preparing a research program.

Social Procurement and Development of Social Services System
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to systematize knowledge about social order and the development of a system of social services in social work as an area of knowledge and practical activity aimed at ensuring social protection of the population. The discipline considers issues related to understanding the systemic principles of social order and social services, legislative regulation of social order, implementation of the social order of NGOs

Social work practice research
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to develop research competencies and develop the ability of undergraduates to conduct independent research in the field of theory and practice of social work. The course covers a wide range of techniques conducting social research and summarizing empirical data needed in social worker practice.

Statistical analysis in social work
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Mastery of the most important principles, practical applicability of knowledge, theory, methods of statistical analysis. Methodological foundations of the general theory of statistics, methods for calculating statistical indicators of the social sphere of society, the capabilities of the statistical apparatus, features of the interpretation of statistical data

Theories and methodology of social work
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to integrate knowledge, independently choose, justify the goal and conduct research on fundamental problems of the theory and methodology of social work, as well as the ability to develop complex thematic target programs, master the theoretical and methodological basis for research and evaluation of social reality in the context of problems.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Addictions, society and social practice
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to develop assessment and intervention skills, the initial competence needed to work with people with problems with substance use and other mood-changing behaviors. The course focuses on the problems associated with the dependencies and interactions of many micro and microsystems that increase both risk and resilience of customers.

Advocacy in the practice of social work
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the discipline is to study the values and skills acquired during the decolonization of social work. Following aspects are considered during study: mezzo- and macrosocial practice in justice. Social work in organizational, social and political systems. The intersections of white supremacy, institutionalized power, anti-black racism, oppression and privilege.

Case management (practical application)
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to form ideas about techniques technologies for managing a case (case), circumstances that worsen or may worsen the living conditions citizens clients social institutions. Following aspects are considered during study: Subject-oriented CASE technologies social work. Essence and significance CASE technology social work. Object-oriented CASE technologies social work.

Communication skills in social work
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of ideas about the theoretical aspects of communication in the field of social work, mastering the practices of effective interaction in order to achieve the tasks of professional activity. The course is focused on the formation of professional competencies, on the education of the relevant professional and personal qualities necessary for the implementation of activities in the system of social protection of the population

Communities and organizations: analysis and intervention
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of theoretical knowledge, practical skills of analysis and development of management decisions for organizing the local community in order to improve the socio-economic development of the city. The course is aimed at studying the theoretical and methodological foundations of the organization and the local community. The theoretical foundations of the organization, local community, their typology in modern Kazakhstan, housing and communal services, consumer services for the population are considered.

Community-Based Research in Social Work Practice
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline is to form knowledge about key methods, concepts of research at the community level in practice social work. The following aspects will be considered when studying discipline: Multiculturalism social diversity, Social justice social change, Research in field behavioral and social sciences, Advocacy, Prevention, treatment rehabilitation

Discrimination, stereotypes and prejudices
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the course is to form ideas about theoretical perspectives, research methods, empirical results and practical application of research on prejudice, stigma, discrimination and intergroup relations. The course is dedicated to the study patterns of thinking and human behavior in intergroup relationships; analysis of situations arising during intergroup interaction. In the process of studying, the skills of influencing human behavior in intergroup relations are formed.

Domestic Violence: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim course is to form an understanding o main aspects dynamics domestic violence the specifics scientific study this problem. When studying discipline, undergraduates will study following aspects: Introduction to problem domestic violence and its study. An interdisciplinary approach to study domestic violence. Violence and its types.

Interviewing and consulting
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form students' correct attitude and application of ethical rules of conduct for interviewing and counseling a client, a correct understanding of the concept of client support. The course is focused on consolidating the knowledge of undergraduates about interviewing, counseling a client as the basic skills of a social worker, instilling skills and abilities to conduct effective, correct interviewing and counseling a client.

Management in social organizations and communities
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of a systematic understanding of the subject area of management in social organizations and communities. The course is devoted to the presentation of the principles, mechanisms, levels of management in organizations and communities. In the course of studying the course, the specifics of the application of functions, principles and methods of management in the social sphere are considered; studies of the current state of the management system in organizations and communities

Moderation and presentation of research in social work
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to teach the skills of moderating scientific meetings and presenting research. When studying discipline, following aspects will be considered: Subject, object, role and place of moderation technology. Written forms of presentation results of scientific research. Qualification forms for presentation of scientific research results.

Protection of children in migration processes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of ideas about the protection of migrant children as a complex and multifaceted socio-demographic process. The course is devoted to the study of the features of migration policy in relation to children of migrants, the protection and rights of their interests. The study examines: the specificity of the legal status of children of migrants; legal regulation of the protection of the rights of children of migrants; the features of adaptation of children of migrants are analyzed

Social and Labor Legislation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim is to train masters with a set competencies, including knowledge, understanding skills in field labor law, capable independent reflection practical application acquired knowledge in their professional activities. Following aspects are considered in study: Social guarantees field labor relations. Correlation principles labor law with subjective labor rights obligations.

Social partnership and dialogue
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose discipline form ideas about nature social partnership as a system interrelated activities, object owhich are acute problems modern society functioning population, as well as mechanisms for implementing social partnership within framework o current legislation. Following aspects are considered during study: Essence and content osocial partnership. Institutionalization social partnership.

Structural dimension of non-governmental organizations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose discipline is formation theoretical knowledge, skills competences for undergraduates in the current and prospective financial planning, the formation and use of monetary funds, the organization of money turnover, the balance of material and financial resources; maintaining an effective capital structure; control over the receipt and use of funds.

Supervision in social work practice
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose discipline is formation systemic ideas about directions supervision in social work technologies for its implementation. Following aspects are considered during study: Modern ideas about supervision. Supervision models. Supervisory relationship. Structure sequence face-to-face supervision. Focuse supervisor's attention. Dealing with a therapist's request for supervision. Types supervision.

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.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита НИР
  • 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