3 BA Degree Programs in Astana Kazakhstan

The Bachelor of Arts degree program in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature offers a flexible and applied degree that is designed to train the next generation of specialists in linguistics, languages, and literature, as well as provide a solid generalist degree to prepare students in a variety of professions. This major program provides students with a focused familiarity with one of four languages, cultures, and history of the world: Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish and German, and thus offers excellent training for future graduate study and employment in the government or business sectors and non-government organization, particularly in fields with a strong language/communication/literature excellence requirements, positions including translation, museum work, library, arts or academy.

A program that focuses on the systematic study of what it means to be human. Students are exposed to a holistic approach that focuses on cultural behavior and institutions, biology, material culture, and language. The program is four-field, which means that students take classes in archaeology, linguistic anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and biological anthropology. The department also offers courses focusing on medical anthropology, primatology, race and ethnicity, economic anthropology, hominids, prehistoric archaeology, anthropogenic modification of the environment, gender, sexuality, and many other topics.

GOALS OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME: formation of universal and social-personal values; formation of ecological, physical, ethical, legal culture and the culture of thinking; deep acquisition of modern conceptions and achievements of general linguistics and literature.