7M05112 Geobotany

Цель: Тraining highly qualified specialists with both personal and professional competencies, as well as deep knowledge in biology, geography, ecology, and geobotany; promotes the active implementation and application of acquired knowledge, skills, and abilities in research institutes and laboratories, government agencies and environmental organizations, and educational institutions

Предметы на ЕНТ: Bioresources of Kazakhstan и Botanics

Educational program

Тraining highly qualified specialists with both personal and professional competencies, as well as deep knowledge in biology, geography, ecology, and geobotany; promotes the active implementation and application of acquired knowledge, skills, and abilities in research institutes and laboratories, government agencies and environmental organizations, and educational institutions

1. To determine the content, methods and means of training sessions in accordance with the objectives of the course for the development of the curriculum and conducting lectures and practical classes, carrying out educational activities in professional educational institutions based on psychological and pedagogical principles;
2. To analyze biological, geobotanical patterns of biosystems' vital activity, based on the regularities and trends in the development of special activities for the production of scientific knowledge;
3. To explain the principles of the organization and functioning of science, the genesis and history of science from the point of view of the formation of its models, images and styles of thinking, interpreting the latest theories and concepts as confirmation of patterns and trends in the development of biological science;
4. To classify geobotanical works in accordance with regulatory and technical documentation, based on the selection of methods and technologies adequate to the tasks of research for the study of living organisms;
5. To analyze and comprehend the realities of modern theory and practice based on the history and philosophy of science, methodology of natural science, socio-humanitarian and technical knowledge, using for it the latest techniques, concepts and theories, technologies for solving fundamental problems in the field of biology, geobotany;
6. To apply knowledge of the self-consciousness of science in its socio-philosophical perspectives, the phenomenon of science as a profession, social institution and direct productive force, revealing the disciplinary self-determination of natural, social and technical sciences, their commonalities and differences; to search for scientific, technical and patent information necessary to substantiate the direction and subject of research;
7. To monitor natural resources, environmental management, and man-made risk areas, developing projects for the conservation of vegetation cover to solve practical problems of agriculture, geobotany based on methods of biology, geobotany;
8. To use application programs to solve various geobotanical problems, performing the collection and analysis of geobotanical research to study the natural resource potential of the country, individual regions and regions for the purpose of rational environmental management, based on the obtained results, develop academic programs for disciplines to be included in the educational process, presenting material in oral and written form for various audiences.
9. To apply practical skills in the field of geobotany in both field and laboratory conditions, designing and conducting comprehensive research based on a scientific worldview and the mastered research technologies in biology and biotechnology;
10. To develop a monitoring program for environmental control based on geobotanical research, structuring the research activities based on ethical and legal norms in relations between people and in relation to living organisms (principles of bioethics);

Master's degree educational programs

Persons entering the master’s degree or residency:
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) document on higher education (original);
3) certificate of completion of the internship (for admission to residency);
4) identity document (required for personal identification);
5) six photographs 3x4 centimeters in size;
6) a medical certificate in the f

Curriculum

СЕМЕСТР 1

History and Philosophy of Science-3 ECTS
Pedagogy of Higher Education-5 ECTS
Phytotsenology-5 ECTS
Geography of Plants-5 ECTS
Population Genetics of Plants-5 ECTS
Research Methods of Structure and Relationship of Cenopopulations in Phytocenoses-5 ECTS
Conservation of biological diversity and sustainable use of plant cover-5 ECTS
Indicator geobotany-5 ECTS
Dissertation Writing-1 ECTS
Research Seminar-1 ECTS

СЕМЕСТР 2

Research Seminar-1 ECTS
Pedagogical-4 ECTS
Foreign Language (professional)-5 ECTS
Soil Science-5 ECTS
Dissertation Writing-2 ECTS
Psychology of Management-3 ECTS
Monitoring of the environment-5 ECTS
Comparative Morphology of Higher Plants-5 ECTS
Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)-5 ECTS

СЕМЕСТР 3

Geobotanical Research Methods-5 ECTS
Mapping-5 ECTS
Poisonous plants-5 ECTS
The Vegetation of the Deserts and the Steppes-5 ECTS
Brylology-5 ECTS
Forest Vegetation-5 ECTS
The Vegetation of Meadows and Floodplain-5 ECTS
Weed Plants-5 ECTS
Research-4 ECTS
Dissertation Writing-1 ECTS

СЕМЕСТР 4

Scientific Internship-3 ECTS
Dissertation Writing-10 ECTS
Publication in the Proceedings of International Conferences-4 ECTS
Final Attestation-8 ECTS
Research Seminar-1 ECTS
Research-4 ECTS

Employment

Educational programs "7M05112 - Geobotany", "8D05108 - Geobotany" are extremely in demand in various areas of agriculture, ecology and environmental protection, control of protected areas and national parks. Employment includes work in the following types of work: - cultivation of crops; - performance of work on the assessment of the forest pathological state of plantations, monitoring of forests and green spaces using remote sensing data; - conducting baseline environmental studies, implementation of Pre-OVOS and OVOS projects, audit of various types of economic activities; - development, coordination, approval and issuance of projects for the land and economic organization of the territory, reclamation of disturbed and development of new lands; - development and implementation of projects related to the creation and development of specially protected natural areas, hunting farms, objects of historical, cultural and tourist destination; - carrying out topographic and geodetic, cartographic, soil and other survey and survey works.

Contacts

Almaty, al-Farabi Ave., 71/19, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, room 527, work phone: +77273773333 (12-12 internal) Head of the Department of Biodiversity and Bioresources, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Kurmanbayeva Meruyert Sakenovna Tel: +77071104439; e-mail: meruyert.kurmanbayeva@kaznu.edu.kz Lecturer of the Department of Biodiversity and Bioresources Kusmangazinov Adil Bolatovich, Tel: +77055103787; e-mail: adil.kusmangazinov@kaznu.edu.kz