Educational Program

The purpose of the educational program: providing training (highly qualified specialists competitive in the domestic and international labor market) scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of higher qualification, possessing the skills and skills of critical perception and evaluation of information sources, who can logically formulate, state and argue for defending their own vision of current world problems and domestic history, owning the methodology of historical and interdisciplinary research and capable present the results of their scientific work with leadership qualities.

ON1 Carry out pedagogical activities focused on global trends and international standards of higher education, learn new knowledge objects, and also generate new knowledge in the field of national and world history.
ON2 Make suggestions, recommendations as a result of applied interdisciplinary research on the problems of national and world history using new technologies.
ON 3 to develop and implement cultural and educational projects based on new information technologies in accordance with government programs.
ON4 to develop and implement research projects on the development of new directions in historical science.
ON5 to form the ability to analyze current problems and processes of modernity and use the methods of historical science and the humanities in various fields of professional and social activities.
ON6 Generate new and complex goals, propose new hypotheses and solutions to scientific problems in the field of historical science based on an independent original approach.
ON7 to implement joint projects with domestic and foreign funds, scientific institutions in order to create scientific and information products and services and their implementation on a commercial basis;
ON8 to develop scientifically-based recommendations in the socio-political sphere, taking into account the historical context for decision-making by state and local governments.
ON9 to carry out management activities in the field of education and science in the light of current global trends.
ON 10 to prepare analytical reviews on the socio-economic and political development of the countries of the regions and the world, taking into account the priority directions of development of historical science.
ON11 to use in scientific research interdisciplinary approaches: anthropology, political science, sociology, economics, psychology; n
ON12 to assess the significance of the obtained research results in their own professional development and in effective management in the education and science system.

Doctoral Educational Programs

Persons entering doctoral studies (PhD) submit the following package of documents:
when applying to organizations of university and postgraduate education:
1) an application addressed to the head of the organization of higher and postgraduate education (in any form);
2) a document on education (original, when submitting documents to the selection committee);
3) identity document (required for personal identification);
4) official certificate of passing the state language exam (KAZTEST) issu

Curriculum

SEMESTER 1

• The Implementation of a Doctoral Thesis — 3 ECTS
• Research Seminar — 3 ECTS
• Demographic trends in Kazakhstan — 5 ECTS
• Historical memory and policy — 5 ECTS
• Theoretical Problems of Statehood of the Nomads — 5 ECTS
• "Case Study" As the Historical Method — 5 ECTS
• Kazakh mentality in the context of historical psychology — 5 ECTS
• Migration management and social stability — 5 ECTS
• Interdisciplinary approaches on studying world history problems — 5 ECTS
• The intellectual history of forms of knowledge and styles of thinking — 5 ECTS
• Dynamics of the Historical Process and History Model — 5 ECTS
• Influence of Migration Processes on Ethnocultural Integration of Medieval Peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan — 5 ECTS
• Scientific Research Methods — 3 ECTS
• Academic Writing — 3 ECTS

SEMESTER 2

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

SEMESTER 3

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

SEMESTER 4

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

SEMESTER 5

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

SEMESTER 6

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

Employment

The educational program will allow doctoral students to improve their professionalism to a level that allows them to prepare a thesis for the degree of “Ph.D.”, and conduct successful research, expert-analytical and educational activities in the field of world and domestic history.
Training in the specialty 8D022 − History –is carried out for the following areas of professional activity:
- research;
-professional activity;
-governmental activities;
- teaching activity;
- expert and analytical activities;
educational activities

Training in the specialty 8D022 − History - History is conducted for the following areas of professional activity:
- Work in research and cultural centers, archives, museums, tourist complexes;
-professional activities in expert organizations, specialists in certain historical periods and specializations can be attracted as experts, analysts and forecasters;
- work in embassies, as specialists in a particular country, region;
-governmental activities in scientific and educational institutions;
-professional activities in the field of education, teaching in secondary and higher educational institutions.
The following professional activities in the specialty 8D022 − History:
Teacher;
Researcher;
Historian;
Expert;
Analyst;
State employee.
Graduates of the “8D022 − History” program are in demand in the activities of various social institutions: science, education, government, administration, politics, parties, associations, firms and corporations, trade unions. In the process of developing and implementing an educational, cultural, demographic, historical, social, family and gender policy in the country.
Key potential employers for PhDs in the specialty 8D022– History are:
1.International organizations (UNESCO, TURKSOY, UNIFEM, IOM, ILO, etc.);
2.Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
3. Institute of Oriental Studies named after R. B. Suleimenov MES RK
3. Institute of History and Ethnology named after Ch.Valihanov MES RK
4. Institute of Archeology named after A. Margulan MES RK
5. Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
6. Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
7. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
8. Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan
9. National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
10. Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
11. National Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan
12. Higher education institutions
13. Mass Media and Culture
14. State Executive Bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan