Education program "Agronomy" - baccalaureate

Code and Classification of the Education Area: 6B08 “Agriculture and Bioresources”

Code and classification of training direction: 6B081 – “Plant growing”

Awarded degree: Bachelor of Agriculture in the educational program "Agronomy"

Duration of study: 4 years

Purpose of the educational program: Formation of the graduates' professional personal qualities, general cultural and professional competencies in accordance with the requirements of the specialists' training in the field of plant growing and the requirements of employers.

Objectives of the educational program:

1.Provision of conditions for obtaining the high-quality professional education;

2. Formation of human and social-personal values ​​of the graduate as well as environmental, physical, ethical, legal culture, culture of thinking;
3. Education in the spirit of patriotism, friendship of the people of the Republic of Kazakhstan, respect for different cultures, traditions and customs;
4. Formation of the basic knowledge necessary for the development of professional disciplines;
5. Creation of conditions for mastering agronomical concepts and principles, development of skills for analyzing organizational and technological situations and the practical application of acquired knowledge which allows the graduate to work successfully in the field of crop production in various forms of ownership;
6. Training of the graduate for professional activities, mobility, continuous professional and moral improvement and growth throughout life;
7. Formation of the graduates' competitiveness in the labor market to ensure the fastest possible employment in the specialty.

General characteristics of the educational program

The educational program "Agronomy" is created on the basis of request of employers due to the increased need for specialists who have general cultural, professional and specialized competences in the field of crop production contributing to its social mobility and demand in the labor market.

The features of the program consist in the formation and development of socio-professional, practice-oriented competence which allows to combine socio-personal and professional competences in solutionof problems in the field of agriculture and plant growing.

The educational program "Agronomy" was developed in accordance with the classifier of training areas with higher and postgraduate education (Approved by the Order of the MES RK No. 569 of October 13, 2018) and agreed with Dublin descriptors and the European Qualifications Framework.

The educational program is focused on assurance of comprehensive and high-quality training of competitive, highly qualified specialists capable to solve theoretical and practical tasks of professional activity in modern conditions based on the development of skills and abilities necessary for a future specialist in combination with the requirements of advanced technologies.

The educational program is developed on the basis of the modular system for studying disciplines and consists of 14 modules. The total amount of theoretical undergraduate education is 240 credits including the cycle of general education disciplines with 56 credits, the cycle of basic disciplines with 112 credits, the cycle of majors with 60 credits and the final certification with 12 academic credits

Professional activities

Graduates who have mastered the educational program "Agronomy" can work in enterprises and organizations of the agro-industrial complex; agrofirms; organizations assessing the quality of crop production; quarantine services; plant protection stations; agricultural research institutions; secondary special educational institutions regardless of the form of ownership in the direction of training, institutions on sorting out the agroculturalcrops; institutions of agrochemical service, in the apparatus of local, district regional, republican structures.

Professional competences

to know and understand: laws of agriculture and crop production; crop rotation system, tillage systems for crop rotation taking into account the fertility; main types of crops, their economic values, morphological and biological features; modern technology of cultivation of crops; seed production and the basics of crop breeding; crop varieties and their selection for the specific conditions of the region according to the level of intensification of farming, preparation of seeds for sowing, methods for determining the quality of sowing material; requirements of state standards for sowing material and quality of crop products; technologies for improving and rational use of natural and natural forage lands, the preparation of coarse and succulent fodder; basics of storage, primary processing, processing of crop products.

to be able to: develop, implement, monitor, evaluate and adjust the components of the technological process in the production of crop products; to make technological maps of cultivation and organize field work in accordance with them; calculate the needs of the economy in seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, fuel and lubricants, agricultural machines, tools and equipment, labor resources; to document and keep records in the framework of professional activities.

to have skills: in solving organizational and economic issues; the use of modern technology of cultivation of agricultural crops; on making adjustments to agrotechnical methods and developing recommendations for the effective and rational use of land and the bioclimatic resources of the zone; to distribute labor resources, to give clear and effective instructions, observing the progress of work in the production of crop products.