History of the Chair
The Department of General Linguistics and Literature is a solid scientific and methodological center that trains students in all areas: bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs.
The department was formed in September 2021 as part of the reorganization on the basis of the Department of Russian Philology and Library Science and the Department of Foreign Languages. The head of the combined department is L.S. Baimanova, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Currently, the department employs 37 full-time teachers, 7 part-time teachers, and 2 employers. Among them: doctors of science, professors - 2; candidates of science - 7, PhD doctors - 2.
The department provides teaching of Russian language and literature at all levels of education, German as a first and second foreign language, as well as Russian and English languages at the interfaculty level.
