"Cultural science" considers the common problems of the theory of culture keeping Cultural science concepts, universal regularities and mechanisms of formation and cultural development, the main historical stages of formation and development of world and Kazakhstan culture, their major achievements. Forms ideas of scientific contents and the analysis of Cultural science problems; development by students of the basic methodological theoretical provisions of modern cultural science.

The study of the discipline will allow the student to achieve a deep and holistic perception of the history of Kazakhstan, the ability to distinguish the true history based on facts and evidence, written, archaeological sources and scientific analysis from fictions and myth-making, the formation of a harmonious historical consciousness and worldview principles in accordance with national priorities, challenges and realities of the time; historical foundations and periods of formation of independent Kazakhstan statehood in the context of the world and Eurasian historical process; objectively and comprehensively comprehend the inherent advantages, features and significance of the Kazakh model of development; correlate individual phenomena and events of the historical past with the general paradigm of the world-historical development of human society.

The sociology studies human society and behavior of people in social circumstances. It allows to see and explain more clearly those social forces which influence our life, to be guided in its internal problems, to define conflict situations in the social sphere and to find ways of their decision. Forms at students of skills of independent analytical thinking in the sphere of humanitarian knowledge, mastering the principles of rational approach to processes and trends of the changing society.