The Department of Foreign Philology is the graduating department of Karaganda Buketov University and trains specialists in the field of language and literature on the educational program of Bachelor's Degree 6B02303 “Foreign philology”, Master's Degree 7M02305901 “Foreign philology”.

The training of specialists is carried out in two paths: literary studies and linguistics.

The department trains philologists, editors, proofreaders, copywriters in English and Chinese.

As the first and second foreign languages, the faculty teaches European and Oriental languages, including German, French, and Chinese.

The study of the second foreign language is compulsory and begins with the 2nd course, it is determined after the first semester, taking into account the average grade of progress and the wishes of students. During their studies, students study such disciplines as "Literature of the country of the target language", "Fundamentals of the theory of the target language", "Stylistics", "Workshop on public speech", "Problems of the theory and practice of translation", "Business English", "Interpretation of the text", "Fundamentals of philological text analysis", "Editing literary text", "Culturology", "Cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics".

In other programs of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, the Department teaches “The basics of the theory of the target language”, ”The literature of the country of the target language”, “Stylistics and interpretation of the text”, “The Chinese language”.

The teachers of the Department are specialists who have extensive experience not only in our country, but also abroad. Many of them have completed internships at foreign universities. The Department includes holders of the title "The best teacher of the university": Doctor of Philosophy, Professor G.I. Isina, Ph.D., and Associate Professor F.A. Kakzhanova.

The Department is engaged in cognitive and functional-pragmatic research of language in the field of professional communication, and also implements the scientific project "Linguocognitive and discursive foundations of national identity in the context of foreign language education" within the framework of grant funding of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, head - Doctor of Philosophy, Professor G.I. Isina.

Graduates of the department successfully work in educational and humanitarian institutions, diplomatic departments and commercial firms, in the field of translation services, mass media, advertising, editorial and publishing activities.