Kostanay state
university
A. Baitursynov
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Characteristic of the master of natural sciences

Specialty 6M060700 – Biology


The specialty 6M060700 - Biology provides possible educational programs: 

 

  • Modern botany;
  • Modern problems of  man biology and animals.

 

The academic degree the master of natural sciences in the specialty 6M060700-Biology is appropriated to the graduate of specialty 6M060700-Biology.

 

Qualification characteristics


The sphere of professional activity of specialty is:

  • the research;
  • the pedagogical;
  • the organizational and technological;
  • the nature protection;
  • the expert;
  • the design;
  • the methodical.

 

Objects of professional activity of graduates of a magistracy are: HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, colleges, gymnasiums, research institutes; wildlife areas, zoos, stations of protection of plants, sanitary and epidemiologic and antiplague stations, selection and sortoispytatelny stations, botanical gardens, tree nurseries, nature museums; research and production, design and geobotanical establishments; managements and ecology departments at regional and regional akimats; branch laboratories, divisions, sections, sectors, departments of republican nature protection departments; research, production, medical, agricultural, pharmaceutical, administrative, expert, nonconsumptive institutions, etc.

 

The master of biology has to be competent in professional and scientific and pedagogical activity; in the solution of scientific problems; in professional communication and cross-cultural communication; in the solution of problems of information search; to be to ready to personal and professional growth.

 

Structure of an educational program

 

The structure of an educational program is defined by the standard training program, the curriculum and the catalog of elective disciplines.

 

Cycle of BD (basic disciplines) - all the credits 16, an obligatory component - 8, a component for choice - 8. As a result of studying of disciplines of cycle DB the being trained has to know the main sections of history and philosophy of science, a foreign language; to have the basic knowledge necessary for studying of professional disciplines.

 

Cycle PD (main subjects) - all the credits 18, an obligatory component - 2, a component for choice - 16. As a result of studying of disciplines of cycle PD the being trained has to acquire knowledge, the skills necessary for implementation of all types of professional activity in the field of natural sciences.

 

Professional practicians.

Student teaching – 3 credits. The purpose - formation of practical skills преподаваниядисциплин specialties and specializations at the higher school. Practice places: student teaching the letting-out chair, and also other HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS are

 

Research practice – 3 credits. The practice purpose - acquaintance with the latest theoretical, methodical and technological developments of domestic and foreign science, formation of skills of the organization and carrying out research works, ability of statement of the theoretical and applied purposes and research problems, and also development of plans of their realization on the basis of achievements of chemical science and modern technologies. Practice places: letting-out chairs of HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, research institutes, the enterprises of a chemical profile depending on a subject of dissertation work of the undergraduate.

 

NIRM, including implementation of the master thesis – 7 credits.

 

The academic calendar contains a calendar of carrying out theoretical training, examinations, certifications, professional the practician, days of rest (vacation and holidays).

 

Recalculation of the credits of RK in ECTS credits within an educational program

 

For ensuring the academic mobility being trained and recognitions of educational programs the structure of educational programs of specialty 6M060700-Biology is presented in recalculation of the Kazakhstan credits to ECTS credits.

 

 The curriculum for 1 year of training

 

Cycle

Discipline name

Quantity of the credits of KZ

Quantity of the credits of ECTS

1 semester

 

Mandatory component

10

30

BD

History and science philosophy

2

6

Foreign language

2

6

Pedagogics

2

6

Psychology

2

6

MN

Evolutionary biology

2

6

 

Total for 1 semester

10

30

2 semester

 

Component for choice

12

30

 

Educational program "Modern botany"

7

18

BD

Methods of search and structuring biological information

 

 

MN

Cellular biology

 

 

Environment and biological diversity

 

 

 

Educational program "Modern problems of man biology and animals"

7

18

BD

Methods of search and structuring biological information

 

 

MN

Cellular biology

 

 

Environment and biological diversity

 

 

 

General elective disciplines of cycle DB

5

12

 

NIRM, including implementation of the master thesis

2

5

 

Total for the 2nd semester

12

30

 

Total for year

22

60

 

 

 The curriculum for 2 year of training

 

 

Cycle

Discipline name

Quantity of the credits of KZ

Quantity of the credits of ECTS

3 semester

 

Component for choice

12

20

 

Educational program "Modern botany"

12

20

MN

Modern aspects of ecology of populations

3

5

Modern directions of systematization of seaweed

3

5

Modern questions of systematization of the highest plants

3

5

Theoretical concepts of physiology of plants

3

5

 

Educational program "Modern problems of man biology and animals"

12

20

MN

Modern aspects of ecology of populations

3

5

Fundamental problems of man physiology and animals

3

5

Age psychophysiology

3

5

Hronobiology

3

5

 

Research practice

2

5

 

Student teaching

3

5

 

Total

17

30

 

Research practice

1

3

 

NIRM, including implementation of the master thesis

5

15

 

Complex examination

1

3

 

Protection of the master thesis

3

9

 

Total for year

27

60


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