Objective of Educational Program

Training of a specialist in the field of digital media, who has the skills to work with digital mobile technologies for collecting, processing and transmitting information, who is able to create multimedia content for media, who owns innovative journalistic practices that are in demand in the modern labor market. This is a unique educational program in journalism, designed to provide professional experience and academic training to help students succeed as a journalist in any environment.

List of a specialist’s positions

• Journalist
• Editor
• Videoeditor
• Media manager
• Director
• Press secretary
• Correspondent
• Cameraman
• Media analyst
• Editor-in-chief
• Producer
• Content maker and PR specialist

Learning outcomes

• Explain and understand the legislative framework of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other countries, as well as standardization and certification procedures in the field of information security, mass media and the media sphere.
• Apply practical programming skills and explain the general methodological foundations of software development, compile system programs for device drivers, interface modules with non-standard equipment and program microcontrollers.
• Demonstrate knowledge about the theory and practice of journalism, modern media technologies, including in a foreign language.
• Have the ability to use digital storytelling tools (writing texts and scripts, photo, video, sound editing and processing, photo and video) to communicate with the audience on various platforms.
• Possess media management skills, be able to analyze the media audience, predict its behavior, expectations, trends, and engagement tools.
• Develop secure server-side client web applications and mobile applications.
• Apply domestic and foreign standards on information security in organizations.
• Develop an enterprise information security policy, apply project management tools at various stages of the project life cycle, perform a qualitative and quantitative assessment of project risks, determine the effectiveness of the project taking into account.
• To put into practice the features of “data journalism”, the specifics of the use of data in analytical and investigative journalism, the specifics and tools of data visualization.
• Analyze and develop skills and competencies in collecting, processing, fact-checking, and distributing information to achieve the goals of digital journalism.
• Apply technical means and software services of network security to ensure the continuity of the business process.
• Possess the skills of content transformation using convergent and multimedia technologies.