About
THE FACULTY
The Faculty of Humanities is one of the founding faculties of Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University. Established in 1997, it initially operated within the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Humanities before being reorganized as an independent faculty in 2008.
The faculty's earliest departments are Turkology and History that produced their first graduates in the 2001-2002 academic year. Over the following years, the faculty expanded steadily with the addition of the Departments of Pedagogy, Sociology, Philosophy, Eastern Languages, Western Languages, and Simultaneous Interpretation. A significant structural change came in the 2022–2023 academic year, when the "Russian Language and Literature" and "Chinese Language and Literature" programs from the Department of Eastern Languages and the "English Language and Literature" program from the Department of Western Languages were consolidated into a newly established Department of Philology.
Today, the faculty offers 11 academic programs across seven departments: Pedagogy ("Counseling and Psychological Support"), Philosophy, Sociology, Philology ("Chinese Language and Literature," "English Language and Literature," "Russian Language and Literature"), Simultaneous Interpretation ("Kyrgyz–English Translation," "Kyrgyz–Turkish Translation," "Russian–Turkish Translation"), History, and Turkology.
The faculty's academic staff comprises distinguished scholars and experienced educators from leading universities in both Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. The curriculum is rooted in the linguistic, historical, and cultural heritage of the Turkic world, with the broader aim of providing students with a well-rounded humaniies education.