The Department of Philosophy and Political Science has a history spanning over 50 years. Currently, the department employs 14 professors and lecturers (faculty members) according to the staffing schedule. Among them, 5 are candidates of philosophical sciences, which constitutes 35.7% of the total teaching staff. Two of these candidates are teachers who have reached retirement age. The department’s staff is fully equipped in terms of both quality and quantity.
The mission of the department is to ensure the social and cultural development of future specialists by forming worldview, civic, and ethical principles.
TEACHING AND METHODOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES
To provide methodological support for the department’s courses, active work is being done in the development of textbooks and educational-methodological tools. In particular, textbooks on the subject of "Philosophy" by the department’s lecturers Kulybaeva D.D., Kuandykova E.Zh., and G.K. Musabekova, as well as a textbook on "Political Science" by Imanbaev A.A. and Imanbekova, published in Russian, were released in the current academic year.
Additionally, textbooks on "Philosophy" and "History and Philosophy of Science" by Dzhunsheeva R.E. and G.K. Musabekova, the textbook "Practical Philosophy" by Associate Professor G.B. Nuradin, and G.K. Musabekova’s "Ancient Eastern Philosophy" (structural diagrams and tables) were approved by the Republican Educational-Methodological Council of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and are being distributed to libraries of higher educational institutions in Kazakhstan.
SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
The department’s faculty regularly publish scientific articles in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, as well as in scientific publications complying with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s requirements.
The department is currently conducting a three-stage research project titled "Philosophical Analysis of the Political-Cultural Being of the 21st Century Man" for the years 2025–2027. The second stage, focusing on the cultural and anthropological aspects of the 21st century person, is currently in progress.
Associate Professor G.B. Nuradin has added a course titled "Fundamental Concepts of Philosophy" to the collection of Kazakhstan’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the Coursera platform. This course is the 20th online course developed in Kazakhstan.
Additionally, faculty members are engaged in a research project entitled "Practical Philosophy: Conceptual Metamodel of Integrated Education and Design Thinking in Teaching Social-Humanitarian Subjects" with a grant amounting to 87 million tenge, running from 2024–2026.
The "Logos" scientific and educational circle of the department plays an important role in developing students’ scientific research activities. The circle organizes small scientific-practical conferences with the participation of university students as well as students from regional and city schools and colleges.
SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ACTIVITIES
The department’s staff actively participates in the social and public life of the university, the city, and society as a whole. In particular, Kulybaeva D.D. and Dzhunsheeva R.E. are members of the scientific-expert group of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan in the Zhambyl region. Faculty members regularly publish scientific-analytical articles in the mass media and on social networks about the political and social reforms being implemented in the country and relevant societal issues.
