About faculty EDU - SDU University

ABOUT THE FACULTY

The Faculty of Education and Humanities offers programs of English (TEFL/TESOL), Kazakh language, and science teachers (STEM), including Humanities: Translation Studies and Philology (Linguistics). We pride ourselves on the high quality of our graduates, who are equipped with 21st century skills and are highly demanded on the market. All programs in the faculty offer contemporary courses on methods of teaching, education, translation, and research. The medium of instruction is English.

About us

Student exchange: Every semester the students of our faculty have academic student exchange mobility to study abroad. The average number of students taking part in student exchange program is 25-30 students. The following list is partner universities which collaborate closely with SDU:

1. Siauliai University (Lithuania);
2. Sookmyung Women’s University (Republic of Korea);
3. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Republic of Korea);
4. Turiba University (Latvia);
5. University of Malaya, (Malaysia);
6. University of NIS, (Serbia);
7. Vistula University (Poland);
8. University of Leicester (UK);
9. Virginia International University (USA);
10. Eastern Mediterranean University (Cyprus);

Visiting professors: Every year the Faculty of Education host visiting professors from all around the world. The professors from Lakehead University (Canada), University of Birmingham (UK), Michigan State University (USA), NILE (Norwich, UK), SIT (USA) have already been the guest speakers in the Faculty of Education and Humanities.

International projects: This year the faculty of Education and Humanities became a part of the Erasmus project with Narxoz and international IT universities under is “HE and VET alliance establishment according to Bologna Principals implementation via VET teachers’ capacity building [ALLVET]” project.

International students: The Faculty of Education and Humanities has more than 100 international students from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Mongolia, China, Malaysia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia.

Departments

LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Тілдік білім беру кафедрасы 1996 жылы құрылған. Сол уақыттан бастап көптеген студент факультетімізді сәтті аяқтап, әлем бойынша кәсіби мақсаттарына жету мүмкіндігіне ие болды. Тілдерді, филологияны оқытқысы келетін және жазбаша аудармашы болуға ұмтылған болашақ мамандарға арналған бағдарламалардың кең ауқымын ұсынамыз. Тілдік бағдарламалар барлық деңгейде қолжетімді: гуманитарлық ғылымдар бакалавры, магистр және педагогикалық ғылымдар докторы. Тілдік білім беру кафедрасы тілдерді меңгерген және әлемдік мәдениет туралы сыни түсінігі бар коммуникациялық сауатты және ақпараттандырылған азаматтарды дайындайды.

MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE EDUCATION

The Department of Pedagogical Mathematics and Natural Science offers programs in the training of Science teachers. From the very beginning of SDU history, the Department of Pedagogical Mathematics and Natural Science has been training high quality graduates of the future. We train international educators of the 21st Century with a state of the art skills and technics. Teacher who can teach learners how and where to gain information. Among the methods the learners will gain use are PBL and CLIL. As we train international teachers, we emphasize on the acquisitionring of English language, so hence almost 80% of opur programs and courses are taught in English.

Research lab

“Simultaneous translation” Lab (room e105)
The simultaneous translation laboratory founded on the basis of the language laboratory equipment of the well-known Turkish company MIPRO, which allows to train both consecutive and simultaneous interpreters.

Laboratory of ” Automated translation “(room e305)
The “Automated translation” laboratory allows students to become familiar with the TRADOS machine translation software, as well as to be certified at the levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced editor-in-chief.

A computer lab is a space which provides computer services to a defined subjects.Students must follow a certain user policy to retain access to the computers. This generally consists of the user not engaging in illegal activities or attempting to circumvent any security or content-control software while using the computers. In public settings, computer lab users are often subject to time limits, computer access requires valid personal login credentials, which may also allow the department to track the user's activities. Computers in computer labs are equipped with internet access.