Biology (scientific)

Bachelor of Natural Science in Biology 
Сipher: 5B060700
Name: Biology (scientific)

Purpose Providing conditions for obtaining the complete, high-grade professional education and professional competences in various fields of biology as well as training of qualified, competitive graduates for staff market; formation of fine system of biology knowledge and whole conception of modern achievements of natural sciences; creation of conditions for development of creativity, gaining high intellectual level, competent writing and oral skills, standards of thinking; skills in scientific research; opportunity for subsequent professional education considering individual trajectories of education. 
Disciplines

Core Modules (15 credits):

State Compulsory Module (11 credits)
  • History Kazakhstan (State exam)
  • Professionally-Oriented Kazakh (Russian) Language
  • Professionally-Oriented FLanguage
  • Phylosophy of science
Social and Communicative Module (4 credits)
  • Psychology of Interpersonal Communication
  •  Theoretical and Applied Political Science
  • Ethics of Personal and Social Success
  • Culture and Religion
  • General and Applied Sociology
  • Human Life Safety
  • Ecology and Sustainable Development
  • Kazakhstan Law
  • Fundamentals of Economics

Vocational modules (111 credits)

Natural Sciences (STEM) module (12 credits) 
  • Information technologies
  • Latin
  • Biophysics
  • Вiochemistry 
Basic Professional Modules (72 credits)
Module 1: Botany
  •  Botany 1
  •  Botany 2
Module 2: Mathematics
  • Mathematics
Module 3:Zoology
  • Zoology 1
  • Zoology 2
Module 4: Biometrics
  •  Biometrics
Module 5: Cell and Tissue Biology
  •  Сell Biology
  • Histology
Module 6: Chemistry
  • Chemistry
Module 7: Physics
  • Physics
Module 8: Microbiology and Virology
  •  Смicrobiology (EEEA)
Module 9: Biology of individual development and the theory of evolution
  • Biology of individual development
  • Evolutionism
Module 10: Human Anatomy
  • Human Anatomy
Module 11: Physiology
  •  Plant physiology
  • Human and animal physiology (EEEA)
Module 12: Endocrinology
  • Endocrinology
Module 13: Genetics
  • Genetics (EEEA)
Module 14: Methods of Teaching Biology
  • Pedagogy and Psychology
  • Methods of teaching biology (EEEA)
Module 15: Molecular Biology
  •  Molecular Biology
Module 16: Immunology
  • Immunology
Module 17: Chronobiology
  • Chronobiology
Module 18: Bioethics and preservation of the environment
  • Bioethics and preservation of the environment
Module 19: Bioresources of Kazakhstan
  • Bioresources Kazakhstan
Modules of individual educational trajectories (IET) (27 credits)
IEТ Biological diversity and cellular biology
  • Plant ecology
  • Particular histology
  • Parasitology
  • Herbs of Kazakhstan
  • Modern methods of microscopic techniques
  • Pathology of cells and tissues
  • Scientific writing (kaz/rus/eng)
  • Methods of zoological research
  • Cell and tissue differentiation
  • Mycology and basics of phytopathology
IEТ Applied aspects of biochemistry and microbiology
  • Microorganisms nutrition and excretion
  • Basics of sanitary microbiology
  • Biology of industrial microorganisms
  • Basics of virology
  • Microorganisms and Environment
  • Environmental Biochemistry
  • Scientific writing (kaz/rus/eng)
  • Medical biochemistry
  • Enzymology
  • Biochemistry and physiology of membranes
IET 3 Genetics and Molecular biology
  •  Fundamentals of Mutagenesis
  • Medical Genetics
  • Ecological Genetics
  • Population Genetics
  • Special Practical for Human Cytogenetics
  • Fundamentals of Developmental  Genetics
  • Scientific writing (kaz/rus/eng)
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Fundamentals
  •  Fundamentals of Pharmacogenetics
IEТ 4 Physiology and biophysics
  • Technique physiological experiment
  • Age-specific physiology
  • Mechanisms of adaptation
  • Physiology and biophysics of membranes
  • Ecological physiology
  • Hematology
  • Scientific writing (kaz/rus/eng)
  • Special chapters on the physiology
  • Special chapters of biophysics
  • Photobiology
Interdisciplinary module (4 credits)
  • Innovation entrepreneurship (trade-wise)
  • Intellectual property law
  • Molecular and genetic methods in crime detection
  • Behavioral genetics
  • Molecular and genetic methods in ecological researches
  • Chronomedicine
  • Psychophysiology
  • Bioresources Kazakhstan
  • Anthropology
  • Basics of genomics and proteomics
  • Soil microbiology
  • Al-Farabi and modernity
Practices (21)
  • Educational practice (field, botany)
  • Educational practice (field, zoology)
  • Practical training
  • Pedagogical practice
  • Pre-diploma Practice
Final certification (2 credits)

Thesis preparation and defense

Additional types of learning (8 credits)

Physical Training

Employability Positions at Secondary school teacher, Scientific research in the field of natural sciences, Plant cultivation, Fish and animal farming, Animal and Plant commerce and traffic, Landscape design, Botanical gardens and Zoos as well other professional organizations.
Further studies Access to related second-cycle degree programmes (Master degree). Access to teacher training (education track); to Research and Pedagogic training
Programme learning outcomes

The graduate can demonstrate:

GENERAL:

  • Identify and follow through on personally and socially relevant problems and reasonable solutions to those problems.

  • Identify relevant information sources, make reasoned choices among those sources, and open-mindedly follow where those sources lead.

  • Justify conclusions reached in the analysis of information.

  • Analyze evidence, statements, alternative viewpoints, graphics, and other forms of information.

  • Cultivate eagerness to self-study, acquisition of new skills using educational and digital technologies

SUBJECT SPECIFIC

  • Knowledge of the basics of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology of modern plants and animals;

  • Skills in gathering, fixation, identification and labeling of plants and animals;

  • Understand living systems by describing their nature, organization, and evolution.

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    Understand and use the processes by which scientific knowledge of living things isgenerated.

  • Understand the ways the environment impacts humanity and how human actions affect the environment

  • Mastering professional equipment – skills in microscopy, chromatography, spectroscopy, centrifugal separation, DAN and RNA polymerization etc, safe laboratory work, knowing the methods limitations and appropriate application;

  • Use archives and libraries, Internet for data search, data analysis and performance as well as preparing own research publication;

  • Use IT and appropriate software in biological researches and pedagogical training;

  • Design, carry out and analyze scientific research on given theme in one’s own language and in the second language.

  • Knowledge about principles of bioethics: moral questions and issues surrounding the life sciences concerning human beings, animals, and nature.

  • To be familiar with the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights of UNESCO, and its application by the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

  • Skills in solving of subject and scientific problems in Biology.