BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMME inARCHITECTURE

Qualification: Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

Programme code: 5B042000

Duration: 5 years

Form of study: full-time

Brief programme scope:

Relevant professional areas and bodies: construction, science, education, departments of architecture and urban planning of the district, city and regional levels.

Objects of professional activity: architectural design, organization and management.

Subject of professional activity: the articulation of the human environment.

Types of professional activity: architectural design work, design work for industry and technology, pedagogical work in secondary schools that have a focus on architecture and construction, administrative and managerial work in the relevant departments, Master degree in Architecture at the universities of Kazakhstan and abroad.

Content of professional activity: development of design and cost estimate documentation, design work in industry and technology, pedagogical activity, historical and theoretical analysis of a conducted work, its summary and promotion.

Brief description of skills

1. Graphic design skills, volumetricsoftware modelling with the use of state-of-the-art software packages for personal computers; situational analysis, market analysis, economic management methods, methods of modelling economic processes, economic evaluation of projects; sketches and presentations of objects and environments in closed and open spaces, color and light representation, representation of the color and texture of materials of the designed objects; creative concept development and its preliminary sketching; compositional solution of a project; modelling and resolving the color and graphics of a model; design for a specific urban environment taking into consideration the factors that affecting the formation of an environment;
2. Independently conduct pre-project studies; articulate tasks and determine ways to achieve them; evaluate a result; present project proposals in a professional form in accordance with the regulatory requirements and standards.

Programme summary

The programmeprovides theoretical knowledge and practical skills for project development in architecture and for urban development of cities and regions. This programme is developed in accordance with the National Qualification Framework and Professional Standards, is in accordance with the Dublin descriptors and the European Qualifications Framework and involves a broad basic training.

Programmeplace in the national rating of IAAR(Independent Agency of accreditation and rating)

Architecture, 5B042000,takes the 3rd place in theIAAR rating.

Contact in case of questions: Head of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Isina Asem Zaisanovna

Phone: +7 (7172) 39 75 59

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MASTER PROGRAMME in ARCHITECTURE

Qualification: Master of Arts in Architecture

Programme code:6M042000

Duration: 1 year – profile education; 2 years – scientific and pedagogical education.

Form of study: full-time

Brief description of the programme’s use:

1. Profile Master programme provides graduatetraining for the architects that possess in-depth professional experience. Theprogramme’s core lies in the applied education. The graduate of this program can be employed as a designer, design manager and perform managerial works.
2. Science and education Master programme offers the graduate the possibility of a consequent postgraduate education, work in science and research sector and is aimed at improving and deepening the student’s research and teaching skills in the field of architecture.

As a result of this course, the graduate should obtain a fundamental scientific and professional preparation, know current information technologies, including methods for obtaining and processing scientific information, be able to articulate and resolve relevant scientific and practical problems, plan and conduct research and/or experimental research in his area of expertise, teach in universities, successfully conduct research and management activities.

Brief description of skills

1. Graduate of the profile Master programme may be employed as a designer, design manager and perform managerial works.
2. Graduate of the scientific and pedagogical Master programme may be employed in the higher education sector, teach, work on the analytical developments concerning educational processes, compile model and working curricula, develop teaching methodologies, give lectures and practice training in architecture, art, etc.

Possibility of continuing education

The graduates that have successfully finished one of the programmes are prepared to pursue the doctoral studies.

Brief programme summary

The programme in Architecture, 6M042000, was requested by the employers, who had been in need of the architects that were able to develop, implement and monitor design work in architecture and urban planning.The main objectives of the programme are, therefore, to instillcore professional competencies, provide prerequisites for the students’ independent research activities, develop skills of working with scientific and technical information, teach to systematize and summarize obtainedinformation, teach to use domestic and foreign experience in professional activities. The underlying idea isa focus on the future, which is manifested in constructing education for success in the professional activities to meet the employer requests.

Programme place in the national rating of IAAR

Architecture, 6M0420000, takesthe 4th place in the IAAR rating

Contact in case of questions: Head of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Isina Asem Zaisanovna

Phone: +7 (7172) 39 75 59

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DOCTORAL PROGRAMME in ARCHITECTURE

Qualification: Doctor of philosophy (PhD) in Architecture

Programme code:6D042000

Duration: 3 years, both science and teaching programme and a profile programme

Form of study: full-time

Brief description of the programme’s use

Professional activity of the doctors of philosophy (PhD) and the doctors in the profile track of the programmecan be following:

• design work in architecture and urban planning;
• administrative and managerial work in the structural units of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the district, city and regional level;

For those with scientific and pedagogical training:

• research work in architecture and urban planning;
• scientific and pedagogical work at the universities, colleges with architecture and construction focus;
• educational (pedagogical);
• methodological.

Brief description of skills

Scope of professional work:

• educational work in the higher education bodies, vocationalschools with architecture and construction focus,
• scientific and managerial work in research and industry bodies, research institutes, departments of the State Office of enterprise and private sector management.
• managerial work in the structural units of the Department of architecture and urban planning of the district, city and regional level, regional and district administrative bodies, architecture firms of various forms of ownership.
• Objects of professional work:
• higher education and vocational education institutions with architecture and construction focus;
• research and industry centers, research institutes with architectural focus;
• structural units of the departments of architecture and urban planning of regional and district administrative bodies,
• architecture firms of different forms of ownership.

Brief programme summary

• ensuring quality education by requiring a certain preparatory background from the doctoral students and by requiring a regulated quality of educational process;
• regulating the rights of the subjects of educational work;
• improving theevaluation of the doctoral students’ knowledge and the quality of educational programs with objective and informative criteria;
• creating academic mobility opportunities for the doctoral students;
• ensuring the functioning of the single educational space of Kazakhstan;
• ensuring the recognition of the Kazakhstan degree of doctor (PhD) or the doctor of the profile programme internationally and on the international labor market.

Doctoral programme in Architecture, 6D042000 (hyperlink)

Contact in case of questions Head of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Isina Asem Zaisanovna

Phone: +7 (7172) 39 75 59