Education

Lecturers of the Department use teaching methods, activating students' scientific-cognitive activity: original innovative technologies, problems-solving, immersion in the problem, self-examination, testing, mutual assistance in carrying out practical tasks, methods of interactive games, debates, discussions, etc.

​​Leading researchers, workers of religious centers, cultural centers, the Department of Internal Policy, postgraduate and undergraduate students are invited.

In 2011, PSU's program in 5В020400 Culturology was ranked 1st in the National Ranking among all HEIs of the Republic.

Great attention is paid to educational work with students. Visits to exhibitions, museums, concerts, theaters and religious centers take place on a regular basis.

An academic competition in cultural studies with participation of all students studying in Kazakh and Russian is held every November. Students majoring in 5В020400 Culturology won the 2nd prize at the 2nd National Academic Competition at Al-Farabi KazNU in Almaty.

 
 

Year 3 and 4 students participated in the Travel and Work program and went to the USA. Master's degree students have internships in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Omsk (Russia), Prague (the Czech Republic), Riga (Latvia).

Undergraduate students in 5В020400 Culturology and Master's students in 6М020100 Philosophy take part in the internal academic mobility program. They study at Al-Farabi KazNU (Almaty) and Kazakh National University of Arts (Astana).

The Department works in close cooperation with the Regional Scientific and Practical Center for the Study of Inter-ethnic and Inter-confessional Processes and the Center for a Complex Study of Personality.

Students and staff of the Department take part in the Bilim+ project aimed to improve religious literacy among PSU students.

The Department's academic staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students participate in national and international conferences, and hold conferences: International Conference "Religion and Nation", National Conference "Science, Philosophy and Religion: Interaction in Modern Education", International Conference "Imanzhusip in the Cultural and Historical Tradition of Modernity", International Conference "Ethnoconfessional Identification and Priorities of the Modern Youth in the Post-Soviet Countries".

There is a Student Club of Philosophy and Culturology (Tanym) working with students and helping them in the formation of values in the ever-changing world. The Club held round-table conferences and debates on the following topics: the Modern View of the Problem of Life and Death; Suicide among Young People: the Causes and Prevention Methods; Heroes of Our Time, etc.

Green Grove

Graduates of 2013

Farewell Ceremony

Educational activities are carried out continuously and in accordance with the content, plan and methods of organizing educational activities of the Faculty and the University.

Advisers are assigned to each student group, they regularly conduct educational and organizational work with students. Advisers keep a special register, hold various events, including: introducing first-year students to the general information about PSU, planning and organization of teaching and learning, rules of transfer, expulsion and recovery of students, as well as the rights and responsibilities of students. Matriculation and farewell ceremonies are held every year.

Lecturers and students hold debates, round-table conferences. It has already become a tradition to hold such events as Health Days, meetings with interesting people, etc. Students majoring in Culturology Science are active members of debate clubs, sport clubs, amateur arts clubs, Alliance of Students of Pavlodar; they also take part in various competitions, Student Self-Governance Week and other events organized by the University.

 

Meeting with Murat Auezov, a public figure and culturologist