Educational Program

The goal of the program is to train highly qualified specialists in the fields of state, international, research, teaching, expert, organizational and managerial activities, Analytics and consulting. To develop the following professional and personal qualities in doctoral students: flexibility of thinking, concentration and switching of attention, accuracy of perception, logical thinking, ability to generalize, creative imagination, interest in achieving maximum results of scientific and teaching activities. Also generate new knowledge in the field of religious studies, solve scientific problems with the use of interdisciplinary research from scientific-based methodological positions and generalization of the latest scientific concepts; able to independently conduct research and field research. Independently set and solve scientific, pedagogical and industrial tasks, as well as actively contribute to the scientific, socio-economic and spiritual development of Kazakhstan.

1.To carry out teaching activities on religious studies in educational organizations
2.To design educational and methodical documentation on educational disciplines in accordance with the profile of training
3.Develop methods and technologies for creating innovative products/services in the Office of Internal Policy
4.Plan the scientific and synergistic effects of research information on complex self-evolving and self-organizing social, political and religious systems
5.To use in professional activity theoretical and applied methods of studying religion, methods of forecasting and modeling in modern religious studies
6.Apply innovative methods of religious analysis and religious expertise
7.Publish scientific articles and monographs on topical issues of religious studies
8.Use professional knowledge in consultations on various issues of religion and activities of religious associations

Doctoral Educational Programs

1) Bachelor's, Master's Degree diploma + appendices (original)
2) Identity card (original and 2 copies)
3) Certificate confirming proficiency in a foreign language
4) Official KAZTEST certificate (NTC)
5) Medical certificate form 075/y
6) 3×4 photos 6 pcs
7) Document confirming employment in accordance with the Labor Code of the RK
8)List of scientific publications for the last 3 years, research plan and essay
9) Results of the preliminary selection (in the field of "Healthcare")

Curriculum

SEMESTER 1

• Academic Writing — 3 ECTS
• Scientific Research Methods — 3 ECTS
• Actual Problems of the Religion Science — 5 ECTS
• Religion in the Modern World — 5 ECTS
• Religion and Secularity in the Modern World — 5 ECTS
• Religious Culture in the Historical and Modern Meaning — 5 ECTS
• Methods and Technologies of Studying Religious Theories — 5 ECTS
• State and Confessional Relations — 5 ECTS
• The Anthropological Discourse in Modern Religious Philosophy — 5 ECTS
• Religious Anthropology and Thanatology — 5 ECTS
• Conflictology in the Spiritual Sphere — 5 ECTS
• Alternative Religious Groups — 5 ECTS
• Religious and Cultural Diversity — 5 ECTS
• Religious Stereotypes and Religious Consciousness — 5 ECTS
• Research Seminar — 3 ECTS
• The Implementation of a Doctoral Thesis — 3 ECTS

SEMESTER 2

• The Implementation of a Doctoral Thesis — 11 ECTS
• Research Seminar — 2 ECTS
• Graduate Seminar — 6 ECTS
• Pedagogical — 10 ECTS

SEMESTER 3

• The Implementation of a Doctoral Thesis — 14 ECTS
• Research Seminar — 8 ECTS
• Participation in International Scientific Conferences — 3 ECTS
• Research — 5 ECTS

SEMESTER 4

• The Implementation of a Doctoral Thesis — 15 ECTS
• Research Seminar — 4 ECTS
• Graduate Seminar — 6 ECTS
• Research — 5 ECTS

SEMESTER 5

• The Implementation of a Doctoral Thesis — 8 ECTS
• Scientific Internship — 10 ECTS
• Research Seminar — 3 ECTS
• Participation in International Scientific Conferences — 3 ECTS
• Graduate Seminar — 6 ECTS
• Publication of the Main Scientific Results of the Dissertation in Scientific Journals — 5 ECTS

SEMESTER 6

• The Implementation of a Doctoral Thesis — 2 ECTS
• Research Seminar — 1 ECTS
• PhD Thesis Writing and Defence — 12 ECTS
• Publication of the Main Scientific Results of the Dissertation in Scientific Journals — 10 ECTS

Employment

Graduates of the educational program “8D02203-Religious Studies” work as teachers in higher and secondary specialized, technical and professional educational institutions, senior researchers at research institutes and centres;
They hold various positions in the Mass Media, religious associations, Religious Affairs Committees, public foundations, structures and divisions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, and Religious Affairs Departments of regions and cities of Kazakhstan