Educational program

High-quality training of competitive high-level specialists who are able to evaluate and analyze the problems of geographical science, assimilate new objects of knowledge, as well as generate new knowledge in the field of geographical problems, formulate production tasks and solve them using innovative research methods. The program is designed to train qualified employees who are able to perform professional functions of a geographer-researcher in research institutions, public authorities and private companies whose activities are related to geographical research.

Upon completion of this program, it is expected that undergraduates will be able to:
1. To understand the laws of social and humanitarian development of modern society;
2. To assess the current state, problems and prospects for the development of geographical science;
3. Understand the history of development, structure, origin and modern dynamics of the relief of the earth’s surface;
4. Apply modern methods of geography to solve the problems of rational use of natural resources and sustainable development;
5. To use modern innovative methods of processing geographical information using GIS technologies;
6. Conduct geographical research using statistical, mathematical, cartographic research methods;
7. Analyze the patterns of formation of spatial structures of the economy and the population;
8. To assess the development of natural and economic and territorial, socio-economic systems of different levels, the interaction of the environment and the population;
9. Create thematic maps of the regions of Kazakhstan using GIS technologies and the collected geodata database;
10. Compile an analytical review of the current state of socio-economic, political, physical-geographical, and geomorphological processes;
11. To present the results of scientific research for discussion and to defend their point of view in a reasoned manner;
12. Meet the qualification requirements of the labor market; be able to perform special activities depending on the tasks, problem situations, etc.