“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Mission of the History and Social Sciences Sector is training highly qualified specialists for the most advanced branches of national economy. The Sector’s activities enable the students to reveal their abilities to a full extent. The courses in Humanities facilitate the future specialists’ development of a definitive civic position, abilities of adapting to the changes in life and acquiring the best knowledge of the new era, with a pragmatic approach. Our interesting and informative courses will develop logical and critical thinking, enrich the inner world and moral standpoint of the young people and will help them to develop the qualities really indispensable for statesmen.
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The Learner’s trajectory of the History and Social Sciences Study
1. History of Kazakhstan
2. Philosophy
3. Sociology
4. Psychology
5. Political Science
6. Public Speaking
ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ attending the classes offered by the Sector have a unique opportunity to regularly attend guest lectures with leading experts, public figures and well-known professionals from various areas of the Kazakh economy, such as Ramil Muhoryapov (co-founder of Chocofamily.kz), Alexey Li (co-founder of Aviata.kz, Ticketon.kz, Arbuz.kz); Anastasia Novikova (chief editor of Forbes.kz); MadiMambetov (journalist, columnist, consultant); Elena Tryakina (psychologist, psychotherapist); Talgat Kaliev (political scientist, author of the popular Telegram Kaliyev Channel); Svetlana Shesternneva (journalist); Madina Kurbanaliyeva (teacher and psychologist) and others.
As part of the Philosophy courses “The Sources of Turkic Philosophy” and “Portraits of the Steppe”, the students participate in the discussions within the “Ruhani Zhangyru” State Program, and in the university and department methodological seminars, in particular, on the public consciousness modernization challenges, religious extremism threats, etc. The Sector of History and Social Sciences successfully organizes such extracurricular activities as students trips to theaters, museums and exhibition halls. The Sector is also actively involved in the activities of the Book Club, the "What? Where? When?” Club and charity events.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
The course is designed to familiarize students with the main points of modern politics. It tracks the evolution of politics throughout human history. This course offers the study of the problems of democracy, political freedoms, the role of political leaders, the specifics of political technologies and PR. The political science course draws special attention to the issues of information technology, social networks and their role in politics. Creative tasks are used here to stimulate creative and critical thinking among students.
PSYCHOLOGY
The course reveals students' understanding of intellectual functions, such as memory, thinking, creativity and personal characteristics in various social contexts.
The course covers the development of competencies in building and establishing relationships, emphasizes skills in conflict prevention and discusses behavioral norms and standards that accompany relationships at home, at work and on the street. Moreover, the course offers key skills to improve the quality of life by promoting positive, tolerant and respectful relationships.
The relevance of the course is to adapt students to a changing world that encompasses both preparation for family life and work problems. And to search for answers to questions about yourself. Psychology is everywhere!
SOCIOLOGY
The sociology course is designed to familiarize students with the most interesting, problematic and contested issues of modern society. It encourages students to realize the complex nature of a social phenomenon, to assess a person's place in society, to identify problems of alienation, loss of personality, conflicts between an individual and a group in the digital age. The sociology course offers a creative approach to completing assignments, case studies, and gamification in order to facilitate complex issues and stimulate critical thinking among students.
PHILOSOPHY
The course is aimed at forming students' sense of life orientations, value orientations and the foundations of a worldview. The first part of the course provides information about the formation and development of philosophy, starting from antiquity. The second part discusses modern philosophical concepts on the main parts of philosophy: ontology, epistemology, anthropology.
MODERN HISTORY OF KAZAKHSTAN
The course is intended for students studying in the specialties of the Faculty of Information Technology and KMA. His cognitive attitudes are aimed at the formation of students' historical consciousness, their understanding of the patterns and features of the evolutionary dynamics of historical processes in Kazakhstan in the context of world history of the XX - early XXI centuries. They should get a comprehensive understanding of the history of the formation of the statehood of Kazakhstan, its transition to a qualitatively new stage of development. A significant amount of the course is devoted to the modern history of independent Kazakhstan. The key topics here will be such as the formation of a market economy and a democratic civil society, multi-vector foreign policy and its geo-economic and geopolitical priorities, foreign policy initiatives of the Republic of Kazakhstan, national projects and programs. The course program also involves the study of the material and spiritual culture of the Kazakh people, as well as other ethnic groups living on the territory of Kazakhstan.
SPIRITUAL REVIVAL AND THE FORMATION OF THE HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
The purpose of the course: to form professional competencies in the system:
Cognitive:
- the ability to demonstrate the acquired complex interdisciplinary knowledge to create a scientifically reliable and holistic view of the stages of the historical and cultural development of the people from the perspective of genesis and strengthening of the cultural code.
- to be able to understand the relationship of the cultural code with historical self-awareness, to identify the evolution of writing, alphabet, traditional beliefs, in connection with modernization and the task of strengthening Kazakhstan's cultural identity;
Functional: the ability to integrate the acquired historical and cultural knowledge into the system of multifaceted humanitarian knowledge; to form the ability to critically analyze and interpret spiritual phenomena, methodological approaches to the formation of historical heritage in line with the modern civilizational approach;
System: the ability to generalize the acquired knowledge and ideas about the ethnic and spiritual history of the Kazakh people, language, alphabet, religion, historical baggage, interpret and evaluate cultural phenomena in the "flow of history" in the results of training during the midterm exam, practical classes in the form of a scientific essay, presentation, review, scientific review;
Social: be capable of a modern understanding of the historical consciousness of the people and the experience of spiritual rebirth, the ability to reproduce models of consciousness, express an independent vision of the challenges of modernity; skills of synthesis, finding new solutions and applying innovative elements of the past in the interpretation of the country's past;
Meta competencies: to be able to assess the significance of the acquired knowledge in the field of historical and spiritual heritage in one's own professional development and in the formation of Kazakhstani patriotism, love for the small motherland ("tugan zher"), correct ideas about the historical choice of the alphabet modernization, humanistic traditions of local Islam.
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The Sociology course gives a lot of knowledge, it is very interesting. The tasks are engaging and insightful, the creative approach to the task completion allows digesting the material better. I like the work of the teacher very much as she makes accents on discussion issues, and also, during the lectures clarifies whether all the students understand the complicated theoretical questions. The course is very interesting; I obtained a lot of new knowledge. I would like to note the creative approach of the teacher to conducting seminars.
(Zhampeyisov Kudaybergen, Ryspayeva Aisha, FIT, 1 course)
The Philosophy course is unusual and is attractive to me as it considers not the classic, but modern philosophy. This part of the subject (modern application) is more attractive to me as it makes the subject useful. I like the teacher’s easiness of explanation of the complicated questions, diverse tasks (written, oral, group, creative). Lectures and seminars are conducted in a friendly atmosphere. I think that I will remember much from this course.
(Zhalgasbay Raiymbek, Sarsembayeva Madina, Abdrakhman Gaziz ISE, 2 course)
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