Curriculum Support and Development

The Department has curricula for all programmes. Syllabuses are available for 100% of disciplines.

All curricula have been drawn up in accordance with State Educational Standard and reflect the requirements for the development and implementation of study programmes in higher education.

The Department has a catalog of elective courses. The complete teaching complex has been formed for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Leading academics of the Department have made topics for lectures, seminars and practical classes, exercises and tasks, topics for laboratory works, students' independent works, learning and teaching aids, problem books, manuals, etc.

The Department holds scientific seminars on using modern educational technologies in the learning process.

There are work plans for the 2017-2018 academic year (Head of the Department O.G. Potapenko), long-term and annual plans of educational materials publication (Senior Lecturer N.N.Pudich) corrected in accordance with changes in the SES and major trends in the theory and methodology of software designing and programming.

Work programs reflect the types of students' independent work (SIW), its content, deadlines and types of control. Students' independent work is monitored by lecturers during practical classes and consultations.

All curricula and programs are drawn up both in Kazakh and Russian. A system of tests in Kazakh and Russian has been developed in order to carry out ongoing monitoring and final assessment. There are guidelines for laboratory works in Kazakh and Russian.

Throughout the semester, the level of students' knowledge is monitored using the direct and indirect methods. For indirect monitoring, there is a system of tasks and problems.

There are curricula and programs for on-job training that are fully consistent with State Educational Standard of the RK.

Educational literature and teaching materials are fully available in Russian, however, there is a shortage of educational materials in the Kazakh language. The Department publishes new materials in Kazakh and Russian on an annual basis.

The schedule of training sessions is drawn up by the Classes and Scheduling Unit and approved by the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs. It is stable throughout the semester, and all training sessions are held in accordance with the schedule. In case a lecturer is ill or away on a business trip, a training session is conducted by another lecturer assigned by the Department.

There are work programs for all courses taught at the Department. These plans include lecture topics, topics of workshops and practical classes, exercises and tasks, titles of laboratory works, students' independent work (SIW) (according to the approved schedule), titles of learning and teaching guides, problem-books, guidelines, etc. Execution of SIWs is monitored during practical classes and consultations.