History of Kazakhstan and General Education Disciplines Department

The Department of "History of Kazakhstan and General Education Disciplines" was reorganized by the decision of the Board of Directors of Karaganda Industrial University NJSC on  31.08. 2024 (protocol 6/24). It was established by merging the "Kazakh, Russian, and Foreign Languages" Department section of the  "General Education Disciplines " and the "History of Kazakhstan, Social-Humanitarian Disciplines" Department section of  "History of Kazakhstan, Social-Humanitarian Disciplines and Physical Education".

The department "History of Kazakhstan and General Educational Disciplines" was established in September 2024 (acting head of  department - Master of Arts Kapasheva Zh.K.).

Kazakh,  Russian and foreign languages section

1963 – Foreign Languages Department was established ( head department Dyadyukova I.I.)

1991 – the department was divided into the departments of Kazakh and Russian  languages (head department Aitbayeva M.Zh.) and Foreign languages (head department Cheremnykh L.S.)

From 1969 to 1976, the department was headed by Zalessky I.I., Mukanova T. N., Stanovich O.N., Sadykov M.S.

1996 –joined  into the Kazakh, Russian and Foreign languages Department (head  department  associate professor Baibusanova Z.E.)

2001-2011 - the department was headed by Baimbetova M.K.

2011 – the department became  the part of  “History of Kazakhstan and general education disciplines” Department (head department  Associate professor Gumenchuk O.N., 2014-2017 – M.P.S., Khamitov S.B.)

2017 – the department  was established  as "Kazakh, Russian and Foreign languages Department" (head department Associate professor Abdikarim N.A.)

2021 – "Kazakh, Russian and foreign languages" and "General education disciplines"  departments were joined  into the "General Education disciplines" department  (head department  Associate professor Makhmutov B.B., in 2022 – Myrzakhanova A.T., in 2023 – Master of Arts, Kapasheva Zh.K.).

The section "History of Kazakhstan and Social-Humanitarian Disciplines" 

1963 – The department "Social Sciences" was established (head department Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor V.Ya. Zaytsev). 

1964 – The department "Social Sciences" was renamed to "Marxism-Leninism" (head department Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor V.Ya. Zaytsev). 

1968 – Based on the "Marxism-Leninism" department, two new departments were created: 

- "History of the CPSU and Scientific Communism" (until 1975, the department was headed by head department Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor V.Ya. Zaytsev; from 1975 to 1981 - head department Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor N.R. Djagfarov; from 1982 to 1989 - head department Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor A.A. Gunashev). 

- "Philosophy and Political Economy" (head department Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor M.M. Siyanina from 1968 to 1974; Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor I.L. Popandopulo from 1975 to 1985; Candidate of Economical Sciences, Associate Professor V.F. Saliychuk from 1985 to 1992). 

1990 – The department "Moral, Aesthetic, and Legal Education" was established (head department Candidate of Historical Sciences,  Associate Professor Z.Z. Mukhina). 

1992 – Based on the "Moral, Aesthetic, and Legal Education" department, the department "Cultural Studies" was created (headed by Candidate of Philological Sciences, V.N. Shitova from 1992 to 1994; from 1994 - Candidate of Political Sciences O.N. Gumenchuk). 

1996 – All humanitarian departments were merged into one department "Philosophy and Social-Humanitarian Sciences" (head until 2006 - Candidate of Political Sciences O.N. Gumenchuk; from 2006 to 2011 — Senior Lecturer V.G. Cherkashin). 

2011 – The department was renamed to "General Educational Disciplines" (headed by Candidate of Political Sciences O.N. Gumenchuk). The department included the departments of "Kazakh, Russian, and Foreign Languages" and "Physical Education". 

2013 – The department was renamed to "History of Kazakhstan and General Educational Disciplines" (headed by Candidate of Political Sciences O.N. Gumenchuk; from 2014 to 2017 – m.p.s. S.B. Khamitov). 

2017 – The department "History of Kazakhstan, Social-Humanitarian Disciplines, and Physical Education" was established (until 2019 head department - Senior Lecturer R.K. Kolesnikova; from 2019 to 2023 – m.h.s. M.Soltan; from 2023 to 2024 -m.h.s. G.M. Kapbarova). 

2024 – The sections "History of Kazakhstan and Social-Humanitarian Disciplines" and "Kazakh, Russian, and Foreign Languages" were merged into the department "History of Kazakhstan and General Educational Disciplines" ( acting head department -Master of Arts. Zh.K. Kapasheva).

 In 2024, the sections "History of Kazakhstan, Social-Humanitarian Disciplines" and "Kazakh, Russian, and Foreign Languages" were merged into the Department of "History of Kazakhstan and General Education Disciplines" (acting head department  – Master of Arts, Kapasheva Zh.K.).

In 2024-2025 academic year, the department employs 1 candidate of Sciences,  10 Masters of Sciences and 9 Senior Lecturers.

The department has 3 computer labs, 13 classrooms, and a "Competency Development Center."

Russian, Professional Russian, Kazakh tili, Kasibi Kazakh tili, English, Professional English,  History of Kazakhstan, Sociology and Political Science,Fundamentals of Anti-Corruption Culture, Cultural Studies and Psychology, Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Higher Education Pedagogy, Management Psychology  are taught at the department. Disciplines are studied in the 1-3 years.

The mission of the department is to shape a socially active individual with a philosophical worldview, high political awareness and culture, as well as to develop language competence in professional communication.

The strategic goal of the department is to develop the department as an established research and pedagogical school in the field of social sciences, humanities, and linguistic education.