Educational program
The purpose of the educational program is to train highly qualified personnel in the field of geography and diplomacy of energy resources and the program is aimed at the formation to solve practical issues of environmental management and mutual enrichment, cross-country cooperation, the development of socio-economic policy, reducing the cost of production, as well as forms and methods of environmental management and transition to innovative technologies used in the real sector of the economy, professionally speaking foreign languages specialist, able to analyze and manage the natural resource potential with the help of GIS - technologies, able to perform the functions of a geographer and diplomat in solving state and interstate tasks in bodies and institutions of international importance, able to conduct research and negotiations in the energy sector at the world level.
Upon completion of this program, it is expected that students will be able to:
1. to summarize the methodology and practice of energy diplomacy, components of energy diplomacy, standards of energy diplomacy, the role of energy diplomacy in ensuring favorable external conditions for the development of countries;
2. to evaluate the most significant problems and achievements of modern geography; professional activity of the geographer, the basic laws of the market economy and management, objectives, principles and mechanisms of innovative development of Kazakhstan's economy;
3. to apply a complex approach for analysis, evaluation, monitoring, relevant geographical processes using GIS technologies and GIS
5. critically assess the geopolitical and geo-economic situation of countries and their regions, conduct geographical studies of sectoral, regional, national and global problems, develop recommendations for their resolution;
6. to develop requirements of legal and diplomatic bases of international cooperation, regulation of international conflicts.
7. assess the features of global and regional energy diplomacy; analyze the situation in the energy markets.
8. identify the role of national interests in ensuring the national energy security of countries; problems and trends in the global energy sector, global energy markets and international energy policy in the context of regional interests;
9. apply methods of analysis of expert assessment of international situations and international problems.
10. to solve actual problems of international relations and world practice of human rights protection.
11. to develop diplomatic methods and actualize the foreign trade interests of the country in the energy sector and to predict the situation on the world energy market;
12. to find application to the professional knowledge and level of the qualification in the sphere of public service, business, non-governmental organizations of the international profile and to carry out functions of the initiator or the developer of new ideas and projects of professional character.
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
- Foreign Language (professional)-6 ECTS
- Pedagogy of Higher Education-3 ECTS
- Information and analytical work of international affairs specialist-4 ECTS
- Methodology of political science-3 ECTS
- Geography of Population and Labour Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan-5 ECTS
- Megatrends and Global challenges-4 ECTS
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-4 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 2
- Pedagogical-6 ECTS
- Global and regional security-3 ECTS
- Organization and planning of scientific research-6 ECTS
- Energy diplomacy-3 ECTS
- Digitalization in international relations-5 ECTS
- Research-6 ECTS
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 3
- History and Philosophy of Science-3 ECTS
- Psychology of Management-3 ECTS
- Geography of Deviant Socio-economic Relations-5 ECTS
- Theory and methodology of geographical research-5 ECTS
- Anthropogenic landscapes: transformation and sustainability-5 ECTS
- Geopolitics and global security-5 ECTS
- Global Logistics-5 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 4
- Research-4 ECTS
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
- Scientific Internship-3 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-10 ECTS
- Publication in the Proceedings of International Conferences-4 ECTS
- Final Attestation-8 ECTS
Employment
- design, survey, scientific research institutes, bureaus, tourist companies, etc.;
- environmental protection and environmental management bodies of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, etc.;
- general education and professional educational institutions, universities, etc. The best graduates have the opportunity to enter the doctoral program. Employment - 93%
Contacts
Address: Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, 050040, al-Farabi Avenue, 71, Campus of KazNU, Main educational building No. 6 (MEB 6), room: 321, 217, 102.
Contacts: 7(727)3773333, 7(727)3773330; internal numbers: 1488; 1970
E-mail: gulnara.nyusupova@kaznu.edu.kz
