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, to form the master's students' ability to justify and use in design the decorative value of fruit trees, shrubs used in the park landscape in the form of single, group, linear plantings. The discipline is aimed at studying the floristic composition of fruit trees, shrubs of decorative value for use in landscape design.

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 form the ability to apply geosystem approaches to study geographical and geoecological aspects and form an idea of the unity of the Earth’s landscape sphere. The discipline discipline studies the structure, properties of natural landscapes, conditions for the formation of natural-anthropogenic geosystems

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 form the ability to identify the etiology of diseases of ornamental plants used in landscaping to preserve the diversity of the plant component of the landscape design composition. The discipline examines infectious and non-infectious diseases of ornamental trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants recommended for landscape composition

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 the ability to identify weeds of urban flora and, based on their anatomical and morphological features, explain the main reasons for the clogging of gardening areas. The discipline provides complete botanical characteristics of weeds, 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 form systemic knowledge about theoretical and practical aspects in the field of environmental design. The discipline is aimed at integrating the requirements of the environment and culture of objects, conducting morphological description of objects of environmental design in their region; provides skills in managing projects and operations related to landscaping

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, including woody and herbaceous forms, to apply the results of modern research conducted in this area in landscape design.

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 - form a holistic understanding of plants used for indoor landscaping, taking into account their environmental and biological characteristics; studying advanced methods and tools of phytodesign, developing both theoretical and practical skills in composing plant compositions for interior decoration and landscaping spaces. The discipline provides theoretical foundations in the field of phytodesign.

Soil and Plant Diagnostics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form a system of theoretical knowledge and the ability to apply methods for the rational use of modern high-tech equipment when conducting analysis in order to diagnose the chemical composition of the soil and the structural characteristics of plants used in landscape design.

Trees and Shrubs in Landscape Design
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop skills and practical abilities in accordance with the developed competencies about the decorative qualities of tree, shrubby plant forms and 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