The Department of Kazakh Literature trains specialists in the field of education, offers undergraduate and graduate programs, doctoral studies.

Students of the department have the opportunity to study in three directions: «Modern Kazakh literature: problems of genre and style», «History of kazakh literary criticism and methodological problems», «The text of a work of art and problems of textology». The curriculum includes such topical disciplines as «Introduction to literary studies», «Theory of literature», «Modern kazakh literature», «Foreign literature», «Spiritual heritage of the kazakh people», «Abay studies», etc. Students receive special knowledge in the field of Kazakh linguistics and literature.Graduates of the department will be able to work as teachers of the Kazakh language and literature, junior researchers in research institutions, literary consultants and clerks, translators.

Graduates of the department will be able to work as teachers of the Kazakh language and literature, junior researchers in research institutions, literary consultants and clerks, translators.

The Department of Kazakh Literature, relying on the achievements of world literary criticism, is developing a new system for studying and teaching the history and theory of literature. As a priority position, we put forward the study of historical sources, internal and external factors that determined the patterns of cultural and literary and artistic development, the characteristics of the national mentality.