Digital Journalism

The course examines the modern history of Kazakhstan, as part of the history of mankind, the history of Eurasia and Central Asia. The modern history of Kazakhstan is a period in which a holistic study of historical events, phenomena, facts, processes, the identification of historical patterns that took place on the territory of the Great Steppe in the twentieth century and to this day is carried out.

The course includes knowledge of sociological subject areas, research methods and directions. The course will discuss in detail the basic sociological theories and the most effective ways of gaining deep knowledge about various aspects of our modern society. The special significance of this course for students is to develop a sociological imagination, to understand the basic concepts of sociology as a science.

In the course, information and communication technologies are considered as modern methods and means of communication of people in ordinary and professional activities using information technologies for the search, collection, storage, processing and dissemination of information.

The course is dedicated to general political knowledge for specialties in the field of ICT. It includes political self-awareness, improvement of one’s political outlook and communicative competencies. Teaching political knowledge is communicative, interactive, student-oriented, result-oriented, and largely depends on the independent work of students.

The course is devoted to the formation of the physical culture of the individual and the ability of the directed use of various means of physical culture to maintain and strengthen health.

The course includes an intensive English language study program focused on grammar and speaking skills. The course includes topics that reflect the latest advances in information technology, and a terminological dictionary makes them directly relevant to the needs of students.

This course presents questions of psychology in a wide educational and social context. The knowledge and skills acquired and formed as a result of mastering the course content give students the opportunity to put them into practice in various spheres of life: personal, family, professional, business, social, in working with people from different social groups and age groups.

The course is also designed for the formation of bachelors” ideas about the factors that complicate teaching at the present stage of development of society, about the difficulties specific to this activity. The course will help to become the basis for the study of the whole complex of social and human sciences, as well as an addition to general courses in history and philosophy. The course includes topics such as morphology, semiotics, anatomy of culture; the culture of nomads of Kazakhstan, the cultural heritage of the proto-Türks, the medieval culture of Central Asia, the formation of the Kazakh culture, the Kazakh culture in the context of globalization, the cultural policy of Kazakhstan, etc.

The course occupies a special place in the system of bachelor training with engineering education. For engineering students, the study of professional Kazakh/Russian is not only an enhancement of the skills and abilities acquired at school, but also a means of mastering the future profession with a focus on writing and reasoned oral speech allowing for effective communication.

The object of study of the discipline is philosophy as a special form of spiritual studies in its cultural and historical development and modern sound. The main directions and problems of world and national philosophy are studied. Philosophy is a special form of cognition of the world, creating a system of cognition of the general principles and foundations of human life, about the essential characteristics of a person’s relationship to nature, society and spiritual life, in all its main direction.

The discipline introduces students to modern concepts and tools of entrepreneurship and obtaining the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to launch their own startup, taking into account the basics of life safety. On the basis of law and anti-corruption culture, the process of obtaining a patent, the legality of ownership of technological development is being studied, taking into account the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of intellectual property. Students apply strategic analysis in the field of economics, management, communication and technological entrepreneurship.

Within the framework of the academic discipline, the student studies the essence of entrepreneurial activity on the basis of the current legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The course will demonstrate the role and place of small enterprises in the modern conditions of the functioning of the economy of the state and society. The discipline will allow to understand the basic principles and content of the business plan of business entities, to form thinking based on modern anti-corruption culture, organizational forms of entrepreneurial activity are explained, including taking into account sustainable development, ecology and safety of personnel.

The course will introduce the main stages of the emergence, formation and development of journalism in the context of public demand of a particular historical epoch, give an idea of various media channels, functions of journalism, its genre structure, sources of information, develop skills for obtaining, analyzing and processing information. The purpose of mastering the discipline is to give a general idea of the journalistic profession, its specifics as an information activity and a significant social institution, to show the mechanisms of its functioning in modern society, to form competencies that ensure mastery of the skills of creating various types of media texts.

The course is aimed at developing an understanding of the analysis of functions, the relationships between different representations; the values of the derivative in terms of the rate of change, as well as the use of derivatives to solve various problems. The subject of the discipline is mathematical methods and tools for solving various applied problems and their application in computer science.

The course provides knowledge and skills in database design, starting from the conceptual stage and ending with physical implementation

During the course, students will develop the skills of collecting, analyzing, structuring information for the preparation and implementation of the project. The main emphasis is on working with sources and critical perception of information. Work on the formation of fact-checking skills will be carried out both individually and in a group format. As a result of the training, students must demonstrate an understanding of the principles of fact-checking, verification of information and the logic of investigative projects. During the course, the student creates a project work or journalistic material to fill his portfolio.

The course teaches students to use data structures, functions, modules, classes, and other features of the Python programming language to solve applied problems.

Educational practice is an integral part of the student training program. The main content of the practice is the implementation of practical educational, educational and research, creative tasks that correspond to the nature of the future professional activity of students. The purpose of educational practice: the study and consolidation of theoretical and practical knowledge in the disciplines obtained in the learning process, the development of creative activity and initiative of students, their artistic and creative needs and aesthetic worldview.

The course will introduce you to the verbal genres of journalism, such as interviews, discussions, debates, public speaking. Students will study such verbal tools as questions and their types (closed, open, alternative), pauses, interpretations, self-disclosure, paraphrase or reflection. The theory will be reinforced by practice, including in the studio, in order to consolidate the skills of verbal communication, which are the foundation for building relationships between journalists and the heroes of the materials and their disclosure in front of the camera or dictaphone, establishing a wide range of professional contacts, networking.

The course teaches students to use a programming language to develop functional websites and interfaces, and also allows them to master the basics of working and interacting with a database. The course teaches the development of functionality and user interface running on the client-side of an application or website. In the process, students will have the opportunity to create and develop a convenient, simple and demanded website.

This course includes the fundamental principles of leadership and how they relate in practice to becoming an effective leader. These fundamentals are illustrated with examples and case studies. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of destructive leadership, which is investigated using the concept of the toxic triangle, which describes how destructive leadership arises, along with practical recommendations.

The course teaches the study of patterns of random phenomena and their properties, and use them for data analysis. As a result of studying this discipline, students will know the basic concepts of probability theory and mathematical statistics and their properties, as well as be able to use probabilistic models in solving problems, work with random variables, calculate sample characteristics, evaluate the reliability of statistical data.

The course involves learning the basic principles of data analysis without being tied to the programming language and data analysis. The emphasis on this course is to study (repeat) the mathematics required for data analytics.

Data visualization is an actual direction in journalism, which is based on the collection, analysis, and processing of data to create media materials. Technology and modern visualization tools help create interactive maps, graphs, and even personalized elements. The main objective of the course is to teach future journalists how to effectively visualize data to turn it into an understandable story and a visually attractive product. During the course, students create project work or journalistic material to fill their portfolios.

This course covers the basic theory of data journalism and skills of telling the data-driven stories using bid datasets.

This course teaches how to understand the main differences between Russian and Western writing tradition; learn what it means to be constructively critical as a reader and self-critical as a writer; learn the specific of academic vocabulary, grammar and style; practice to create a well-structured paragraph; obtain practical skills in using argument and evidence in your writing; be able to write an academic essay.

The course is designed to learn the basic methods and tools required for the introduction of scientific research. The course also introduces students to searchable databases of scientific articles Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect and others. During the course, students will get acquainted with the citation tools and search for the required scientific information.