Qualification:

Bachelor of Educational program “Natural resource use” 

Duration of training: 4 years, trimester

Code and classification of training areas: 6B05  Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 

Code in International Standard Classification of Education: 6В052 Environment 

Code in the International standard classification of education: 0520 

Brief description of the scope of knowledge

The areas of professional activity of bachelors are: production, management, research and education, the sphere of green economy, environmental quality control and environmental impact assessment. The scope of activities also includes environmental mapping and GIS, environmental regulation and expertise. 

Brief description of skills

Sphere of professional activity:

Bachelors can perform the following types of professional activities: organizational and management; production and technological; service-operational; experimental research; educational (pedagogical); design. 

Areas of professional activity of students in the framework of the educational program "Natural resource use": 1) the development of emission limits standards, preparation of environmental passports, environmental audits; 2) the research methods in ecology; 3) the methods for calculating environmental damage; 4) the basics of technology and the organization of environmentally friendly production; 5) the problems of the interaction of nature and society; 6) the impact of the scientific and technological revolution on the state of the environment; 7) the forms and methods of rational use, transformation and nature conservation; 8) ecology and environmental protection activities (by type); 9) ecology and rational use of natural resources; 10) waste processing; 11) environmental monitoring. 

Objects of professional activity:

territorial departments of natural resources and Natural resource use, specially protected natural territories, industrial enterprises, agricultural complexes, landfills for various wastes, energy facilities, including nuclear power plants, institutions for analytical control of environmental objects, research institutes and centers. 

A summary of the programme

The main goal of the educational program is to meet the needs of society in qualified personnel by training environmental specialists who are able to assess the state of ecosystems in modern conditions, use land, natural, industrial and biological resources efficiently, and develop environmental measures to reduce the impact of growing man-made pressure on the environment and degradation of natural resources in accordance with the Concept for the transition of the Republic of Kazakhstan to "green economy".

The objectives of the educational program:

1. Formation of the main professional competencies of future specialists in the field of environmental protection.
2. Creation of prerequisites for independent search and research activities of students in the framework of the experiment at all its stages.
3. The ability to work with scientific and technical information, to use domestic and foreign experience in professional activities, to systematize and summarize the received information.

The direction of preparation for the Natural resource use educational program assumes a clear orientation towards the future, which is manifested in the possibility of constructing own education, taking into account success in personal and professional activities that meet the requirements of employers. 

The Natural resource use educational program has been developed in accordance with the National Qualifications Framework, agreed with the Dublin Descriptors and the European Qualifications Framework, and is designed on the basis of a modular system for studying disciplines that form general cultural and professional competencies. 

The peculiarity of the “Natural resource use” educational program was developed on the basis of the “Environmental Management” educational program of UCDvis University (USA), which ensures the competitiveness of graduates in the labor market. In addition, students have the opportunity to study the following disciplines within the framework of academic mobility at UC Davis University: Conservation Biology, Restoration Ecology, Grassland: ecology, conservation and restoration, Ecosystem and landscape ecology, Sewage, erosion and water quality management, Urban ecology, Fundamentals of soil science, Sustainable development and management of agroecosystems, Agriculture and the environment, Environmental analysis, Environment Impact Assesment, Introduction to geographic information system. 

Contact person to whom you can contact with additional questions:

Head of the Department of "Ecology" Satybaldiyeva Gulmira Kalmashevna 

010000, Republic of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, 29, A. Moldagulova str., Building of Agronomic Faculty, phone: +7 (7172) 38-39-11

e-mail: gkalmashevna@mail.ru