Political Science

Description: Political science provides students with an opportunity to learn basic political science concepts, see the essence of politics as a social phenomenon, identify its structural elements, internal and external connections and relations at the micro and macro levels, determine the main trends and regularities occurring in various political systems, and gain knowledge about modern political methods.

Amount of credits: 2

Пререквизиты:

• Человек. Общество. Право. Школьный курс

Course Workload:

Component: Mandatory component

Cycle: Secondary disciplines

Goal

• The objective of the course "Political Science" is to provide students with systematic knowledge of the political sphere of public life, which should provide the ability to analyze political phenomena and processes, to make informed political choices, to take an active position in life, as well as help the future specialists in developing their own worldview.

Objective

• 1. Course objectives: - to define the place of political science in the system of knowledge about society, to reveal the specificity of its object of research, object and methods; - to study the history of origin, the most important milestones in the evolution of political thought; - to analyze the basic political teachings and concepts; to understand such fundamental institutions, phenomena and problems of modern society as power, civil society, the rule of law, politics, forms of political system, political regimes, political culture. - to form ideas about principles, categories of political science, its problems and values; - to define the factors contributing to political self-expression of the individual, humanization of politics; - to form the skills to analyze the peculiarities of the development of the political process and the political life of peoples and states

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• - the main stages of the development of political knowledge in the history of civilization; - schools and scientific directions of modern political science; - political knowledge in the following sections: theoretical and methodological foundations of the science of politics, the substantive foundations of politics, political life and the political system of society.

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• know: - theoretical and applied and instrumental components of political knowledge, understand their role and functions in the preparation and justification of political decisions - to be aware of the essence of power and political life, political relations and processes, political entities, political systems and political regimes in society, the processes of international political life, Political process in the Republic of Kazakhstan - the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, to be able to realize them in various spheres of life. • be able to: - to analyze processes and phenomena taking place in society; - to be tolerant, to learn to recognize the right of everyone to political and ideological choice; - to defend their political ideals and values in a reasoned manner, to participate in the formation of the political system of kazakhstan society as a voter, to understand the need to master the democratic political culture; - to have an idea of civil society and the rule of law, democratic institutions and values, to justify their vital, civil and patriotic positions taking into account the ideology of kazakhstan patriotism • own: -political terminology;

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• - to operate on the basic concepts and problems of political pictures of the world, meaning of human life, forms of political knowledge and features of its manifestation in modern society, the correlation of spiritual, material and political values, their role in the political life of man, society, civilization; - to show the place of political science in the system of social - humanitarian sciences, the specifics of its object and subject, the history of formation, the most urgent problems; - to be able to distinguish theoretical, applied, value aspects of political knowledge, to apply them to justify decisions concerning both daily life and professional activity; - to analyze independantly, critically to think politically;

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• ability to work in a group, organize the work of a small group. Communication competence that defines the knowledge of oral and written communication technologies in different languages, including programming, including communication via the Internet;

Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities

• -independantly to form the trajectory of training, to be able to work with internet materials, to develop abilities and interest in creative activity, the need for continuous self-education.

Teaching methods

The following educational technologies are provided for the training: - interactive lecture (application of the following active forms of training: guided (guided) discussion or conversation; moderation; brainstorming; motivation speech); - creation of scenarios of development of various situations on the basis of the given conditions; - information and communication (e.g. computer class) - research (independant research activities of students during training); - solving educational tasks.

Assessment of the student's knowledge

Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.

The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type

Evaluation form

The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:

• 40% of the examination result;
• 60% of current control result.

The final grade is calculated by the formula:

 

Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;

E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.

Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:

The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:

Topics of lectures

• Topic 1
• Topic 2: The main stages of the formation and development of political science
• Topic 3: Public life Politics
• Topic 4: Political power: Essence and mechanism of implementation
• Topic 5: Political elites and political leadership
• Topic 6: Political system of society
• Topic 7: State and civil society
• Topic 8: Political regimes
• Topic 9: Electoral systems and elections
• Topic 10: Political parties, party systems and social and political movements
• Topic 11: Political culture and behavior
• Topic 12: Political consciousness and political ideology
• Topic 13: Political development and modernization
• Topic 14: Political conflicts and crises
• Topic 15:World politics and modern international relations

Key reading

• Basic literature 1 Gadzhiev K.S. Political Science. Textbook. – M., 2019. 2 Political Science: A Textbook / Ed. Baideldinova L.A., Burkhanova K.N., Solovyova A.V. Almaty, 2021. 3 Golos G.V. Comparative Political Science. Novosibirsk.2021. 4 Butenko A.I. The power of the people. M., 2019. 5 Mukhaev R.T. Political Science.- M., 2021. 6 Zerkin D.P. Fundamentals of Political Science: A course of lectures. – Rostov on Don, 2019. 7 Political Science: Textbook / Ed. Nysanbayeva A.N., Almaty, 2021. 8 Lipset S.M. Political Sociology. American Sociology today: Prospects, Problems, methods. Moscow, 2022. 9. Andrey Khan, Marat Shibutov, Andrey Chebotarev, Rustem Kurmanguzhin, Ayman Zhusupova. "Kazakhstan. We are 30", "History of Independent Kazakhstan: government and executive power", "History of Independent Kazakhstan: Political modernization", "History of Independent Kazakhstan: parliamentarism and local self-government", "History of Independent Kazakhstan: Foreign Policy", "History of Independent Kazakhstan: Institute of Presidency". Almaty.2022.

Further reading

• 1. Baidildinov L.A. Theory of sayasattanu. - Almaty, 2005. 2. Buluktaev Yu.O. Political regime and post-communist transformation: theory, methodology, practice. - Almaty, 2008. 3. Kazakhstan political encyclopedia / Ed. T.T. Mustafina. - Almaty, 1998. 4. Risk management in the sphere of domestic policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan / Under. ed. Shaukenova Z.K. - Almaty, 2014. 5. Chebotarev A.E. Political thought of sovereign Kazakhstan: dynamics, ideas, assessments. Almaty: IMEP under the First President's Fund, 2015. 6. Pugachev V.P., Soloviev A.I. Introduction to political science / - M., 2013. 7. Annual messages of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the people of Kazakhstan - the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Astana. 2021, 2022 https://egov.kz 8 Lipset S.M. Political sociology. American Sociology today: Prospects, problems, methods. M., 2012. 9.Haig, B. Political Science : a comparative Introduction / R. Hague, M. Harrop. - New York : [S. N.], 2012. - 442 p. - 17000 p. 10. Powell, G. Bingham. Comparative Politics today: a View of the World / G. B. Powell, R. J. Dalton, K. Strom. - 10th ed. - Boston : [s. n.], 2012. - 722 p. - ISBN at 978-0-205-09751-7 : 28,895 t.