Digital Journalism

The course considers the modern history of Kazakhstan, how 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 is carried out, the identification of historical patterns that took place on the territory of the Great Steppe in the twentieth century and to this day.

The course involves the study of the discipline of 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 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.

The course occupies a special place in the system of training bachelors with an engineering education. For students of a technical university, the study of professional Kazakh / Russian languages is not only an improvement of the skills acquired in the school, but also a means of mastering the future specialty.

The course includes the study of modern information technologies, including methods and means of communication of people in ordinary and professional activities using information technology. Technology data is studied in relation to the search, collection, storage, processing and dissemination of information.

The course is devoted to general political knowledge for specialties in the field of information technology. The course includes political self-awareness, improving 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 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 the opportunity to develop a sociological imagination, to understand the basic concepts of sociology as a science.

The 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 areas of life: personal, family, professional, business, social, in working with people from different social groups and age groups.

The course will help to become the basis for studying 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 the nomads of Kazakhstan, the cultural heritage of the proto-Turks, 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 is devoted to the formation of physical culture of a person and the ability to use various means of physical culture in a targeted way to preserve and health promotion.

This discipline introduces students to the main scientific directions in the field of mass communication research, teaches them to orientate themselves in historical aspects of media development in society, differences and conceptual peculiarities of different approaches to media research and theoretical schools of their study.

The aim of the course is to study works of art created using new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, video games, computer robotics, 3D printing and art as biotechnology.

The course provides an opportunity to get a coherent knowledge system with a universal character, which is necessary for every photographer without exception. It also promotes the acquisition of diverse experience by creating hundreds of training shots, both in the studio and in the “field”. Including in the street and in urban environments.

As part of the course, students will master the basic principles of audiology (general audience theory); a comprehensive understanding of the regularities of media audience behavior, both general and private (print, radio, television, Internet); learn the basic methods of media audience research, master the skills of audience analysis in industry practice, including in the context of the study of media markets, in the functioning and development of media enterprises, in editorial activities, as well as in advertising.

The course is designed to encourage students to think critically, solve difficult problems and develop skills in speech culture, research skills, teamwork, planning, autonomy, goal-setting, i.e. skills that will prepare them for the current realities of career development and adult life.

The course introduces the basic concepts of information theory and coding (information characteristics of discrete and continuous message sources and the basic principles of information storage and transmission through communication channels). The course will also provide students with skills to solve practical problems related to the calculation of information characteristics of message sources, transformation and transmission of information.

The course is dedicated to the study of information security technologies.

The course presents collection and analysis of materials for writing a diploma project.

The course is aimed at formation of practical and theoretical skills of planning, formation and maintenance of Data Lake (data lake). Examples of integration, configuration and maintenance of “pipelines” – traditional sources of data (corporate databases, web-logs, file systems, Internet data, transactions) for further analysis of large data are considered.

This course is designed to study machine learning algorithms with practical application of machine learning techniques implemented in R. The concepts of data mining, productivity measurements and dimensional reduction, regression models, Bayesian model, SVM and associative rules for analysis are considered. After successful completion of this course you will be able to understand and explain the principles of machine learning algorithms, and apply these algorithms to real-world problems in large data.

The Big Data Basic Course provides the necessary knowledge to participate in large data analysis projects. Includes information about the life cycle phases of large data analytics processes in the transition of business to Big Data. The course material provides students with knowledge of basic and advanced analytical methods and techniques used to search and extract knowledge from large heterogeneous data sets.

The essence of the course is that the initial analyzed data with the help of the visualization application program is put into correspondence some of their static or dynamic graphical interpretation, which is visually analyzed, and the results of the analysis of this graphical interpretation (graphical data) are then interpreted in relation to the initial data.

Data journalism is a direction in journalism that is based on the collection, analysis and processing of data to create media content. The goal is to provide information to students and tell them about important events or phenomena. Data, rather than expert opinions or press releases, are used as the source. The main goal of a data journalist is to turn them into a clear story and a beautiful visual product. Technologies and modern visualization tools help to create interactive maps, graphics and even personalized elements.

This course is a guide for those who want to practice the capabilities of Data Science and become familiar with machine learning technology. Visualization of the result obtained by processing and analyzing large data.