Master degree program
Landscape Design

Landscape Design

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Natural Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

ON1 Reasonably solve modern problems of creating landscape projects in conjunction with the usability of building infrastructure;
ON2 To generate new ideas using philosophical methods of cognition and foreign language, applying principles of management psychology and pedagogy in professional activities, applying strategies and mechanisms of communication in academic and professional environment;
ON3 To develop Republican and International projects aimed at advancing the Landscape Design market, investments, professionally preparing analytical reports for companies, governmental authorities and environmental structures;
ON4 To use the complex of acquired knowledge and skills in the management of biological science, in promoting biological programs in legislative, governmental, regional institutions and local governments, to communicate their knowledge and achievements to colleagues and the scientific community;
ON5 To interpret the acquired knowledge in the field of methodology, organization and planning of scientific research, for future professional activities;
ON6 To implant knowledge of decorative floriculture and phytodesign, phytopathology and decorative dendrology, modern methods and technologies of landscape design to defuse the conflict between urban forms and nature;
ON7 To create landscape and architectural projects using computer graphics based on graphic models of space;
ON8 To elaborate analytical reports, research papers and presentations on relevant issues in Landscape Design using a foreign language, adhere to principles of academic honesty and integrity;
ON9 To apply in practice knowledge in the field of landscape design, greening, plant growing, increasing their competitiveness in the labor market;
ON10 To publish relevant articles across various levels of mass media and social networks, utilizing pedagogical and management psychology skills, advocating for one's own scientific opinion with reasoned arguments, and effectively collaborating within a team.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Landscape Design
Speciality Code
7M05120
Faculty
Biology and Biotechnology

disciplines

Decorative Dendrology
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to justify and use in design the decorative value of fruit trees and shrubs used in the park landscape in the form of single, group and linear plantings. The discipline provides methods for selecting and evaluating plant material for landscaping architectural and landscape objects, creating compositions of trees and shrubs, taking into account their decorative and biological properties

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.

Fundamentals of Scientific Research in Horticulture
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form the ability to apply various methods, tools of research, to formulate, justify the goal, objectives, novelty of research, to draw independent conclusions, suggestions. The discipline examines existing concepts and methods in the study of economic processes, methodological principles of research; database for high-quality bibliographic, historiographical review.

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.

Landscape Science
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to apply geosystem approaches in the study of landscapes of green areas to solve environmental problems and restore the local ecosystem. The discipline studies natural-territorial and natural-anthropogenic complexes, their functioning, structure, content, patterns of differentiation and integration, dynamics.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Researches
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at developing the skills necessary for planning and conducting high-quality and competitive scientific research. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of the process of scientific research, their goals, objectives, stages of implementation, as well as areas of application of the results. The discipline is aimed at studying the foundations of the scientific method, the methodology for conducting literary and experimental research, the rules for preparing and reviewing scientific publications and projects.

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.

Phytopathology and Mycology Basics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to identify the etiology of diseases of ornamental plants using modern information technologies to create original landscape compositions and solve environmental problems. The discipline examines the primary and secondary symptoms of diseases; infectious and non-infectious diseases of plants recommended for landscape compositions; plant mycoses; ecomorphogenesis, ontogeny and ecology of phytopathogenic fungi, as well as fungus-like organisms

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.

Weeds of garden and park compositions
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to identify weeds in garden and park areas using professional skills and advanced scientific experience to explain the main causes of weeds in these urban areas. The discipline provides botanical characteristics of the most widespread weeds; ecological conditions of growth of this group of plants; substantiates the place and role of weeds in the landscape composition

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Artificial intelligence in the creation of landscape projects
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to use skills in the field of application of artificial intelligence to solve landscape design problems at an expert level. Students will gain skills in critically analyzing data, developing, validating complex models, developing innovative and sustainable landscape solutions that take environmental, social, economic factors into account.

Computer graphics in Landscape Design
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to visual-imaginative thinking, constructive-geometric imagination, analysis and synthesis of spatial forms and relationships based on graphic models of space, practically implemented in the form of diagrams. The discipline examines the basics of depicting spatial forms, combining geometric shapes into drawing up and designing diagrams in the field of landscape design using computer graphics.

Decorative Floriculture and Horticulture
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form the ability of graduates to justify the choice of herbaceous plants that provide the aesthetics of the composition, ornamental trees and shrubs used in the garden landscape. The discipline provides the basics of landscape design composition using floriculture and horticulture objects.

Decorative Horticulture and Floristry
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop, to ability to justify and use in design the decorative value of fruit trees and shrubs used in the park landscape in the form of single, group and linear plantings. The discipline is aimed at studying the floristic composition of fruit trees and shrubs of decorative value for use in landscape design.

Ecological Design
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to apply in practice knowledge about the theoretical and practical aspects of environmental design The discipline provides skills in project and operations management, justification of the environmental and cultural aspects of environmental design, forms of promoting sustainable development and environmental well-being through practical activities in the field of environmental design, integrating the requirements of the environment environments into cultural sites

Floristry Basics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form the ability to use botanical characteristics, features of life cycles and seasonal changes of plants used in floristry. The discipline focuses on the fundamental principles and theoretical foundations of floristry, which is the art and practice of designing and arranging plants for aesthetic or functional purposes.

Introduction of Decorative plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to use modern methods of plant introduction based on knowledge of ornamental plants for use in landscape design. The discipline provides modern methods of plant introduction, phenological observations, selection and evaluation of source material, determination of age states of introduced plants, assessment of plants of natural flora in culture, use of introduced plants in green construction.

Methods of landscape genetics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim of the discipline is profound knowledge and skills of landscape genetics based on population genetics and GIS technologies. It provides predictive analysis of the pollen and seeds, the landscape quality and behavior of vectors, thereby allowing to check gene flows in populations under biotic, abiotic trends and heterogeneous landscapes.

Modern technologies in Landscape Design
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: develop the ability to independently create projects. The discipline provides the basics of computer graphics, the most common programs used for landscape and architectural design, as well as the principles of creating projects using computer programs.

Park biomonumentalistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim of the discipline is deep knowledge and practical skills in the small architectural forms creation. This includes the history and theory of park sculptures, plant analysis for decorating sculptures, frames, transformers, toys, monumentalistics based on environmental wastes, the tie of the course with plant science, AI, and bioinformatics.

Phytodesign Basics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the subject: to form a comprehensive understanding of plants used for landscaping, taking into account their biological characteristics; mastery of advanced methods and tools of phytodesign. The discipline provides skills in maintaining and caring for green spaces and objects, promoting sustainable development and environmental health through practical activities in phytodesign, understanding the environmental and cultural aspects of phytodesign.

Soil and Plant Diagnostics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to diagnose plant adaptations to the environment to generate new ideas when creating landscape compositions. The discipline provides methods for determining the chemical nutritional value of soil maintained in landscape design, methods for selecting obtained samples, rational use of modern technological equipment and analyzing the results obtained with high value.

Trees and Shrubs in Landscape Design
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to apply practical skills and abilities, modern methods and technologies for growing woody and shrubby forms of plants for their use in landscape design. The discipline provides the basics of composition and techniques for creating color harmony of trees and shrubs in landscape design.

Urban flora
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form systemic knowledge about the structural features, taxonomic structure of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants of the city. The discipline is aimed at studying the structural and taxonomic features, ecotopological structure of urban flora, as well as the species richness of plants

Vertical and hydroponic gardening
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim of the discipline is to promote vertical and hydroponic gardening technologies in combination with research and scientific gardening. The discipline implies vertical and hydroponic gardens, the analysis of proper materials and nutrients, Kazakhstani practice, and the tie of the course with AI, bioinformatics, breeding, and genetic research.

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