Interdisciplinary convergence in the university educational environment

Abstract

Competence profile of a technical university graduate should be formed in the logic of the needs and interests of modern information society. The authors consider the main directions of interdisciplinary convergence of competences in the research and educational projects of the university. The methodological basis for this is the interdisciplinary, comprehensive and competency-based approaches, practical usefulness principles focusing on personality. The article considers specific features of introduction of interdisciplinary mechanism of competences formation in the scientific and educational projects of the Faculty of Humanities in Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR), such as formation of graduates’ intercultural competence and the study of TUSUR students’ motivation potential in the learning process. Practical significance of the work lies in the fact that relevance of a modern specialist depends on the degree of development of the cultural identity and ability to successfully interact with representatives of other cultures, as well as internal personal factors that interfere with learning and encouraging learning, are defined. Socio-educational projects, initiated and developed by the Faculty of Humanities of TUSUR as a coordinator for the interdisciplinary convergence of practices, are aimed at creating the atmosphere of tolerance and interethnic harmony in the region. The authors conclude that interdisciplinary educational effect goes beyond the cycle of the humanities disciplines, allowing us to talk about qualitative changes in training.