Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center

Master's and Bachelor's Degree Educational Programs

Bachelor's Degree Programs in Rapidly Developing Scientific Areas in the Field of Human Potential:

The program trains specialists in the field of psycho- and neuro-linguistics with both humanitarian and mathematical knowledge, as well as programming skills.

2. Researcher at EdTech Minor

The educational program is devoted to the research and analytical components of educational technologies. The wide coverage of different areas of bachelor's training allows us to promote the ideas of evidence-based education among various future specialists and create a multidisciplinary environment for discussing the problems of digital products for teaching and learning.

The educational program combines both theoretical training in the main geographical disciplines and the development of students' practical skills. The program trains specialists for companies solving geomarketing and geolocation tasks, for development institutions involved in spatial planning, for industry and regional consulting.

4. Study course Psychology of Social Inequality

The study course introduces students to modern research in the field of psychology of social inequality. The psychology of social inequality is a field of interdisciplinary research in psychology, economics, sociology and political science.

Master's Degree Programs:

Interdisciplinary program in neuroscience, psychometrics and education. The program combines knowledge about the development process from the point of view of neuroscience and cognitive psychology with the skills of psychometrics, the modern science of measurement.

The main focus of the program is aimed at developing the ability to reflect on their teaching activities, using research methods in education to evaluate educational innovations.

The uniqueness of the program is combined with deep fundamental training in economic theory, quantitative disciplines and methods of experimental analysis, and applications to economic policy.

The Demography — Economy track is aimed at training specialists who are able to analyze, model and predict demographic changes, integrate the results of demographic analysis into forecasts and programs of socio-economic development of countries and regions.

9. Integrated track Brain and Cognitive iBrain Sciences

Cognitive sciences is a unique interdisciplinary field of social and behavioral sciences, combining psychology and neuroscience. The program sets itself the task of creating a world-class master's-postgraduate track, in order to provide the state with specialists in the field of neuroscience with the PhD level.

The master's program is aimed at training HR specialists and expert analysts with broad competencies in the field of digital HR and organizational development, capable of building human management processes in the context of digital transformation, solving applied tasks in the field of human resource management.

11. Study courses Pool Human Potential in an Inclusive Society: Modern Challenges and Development Prospects

The study courses are aimed at developing unique competencies in the field of diversity management, ethical leadership, research and consulting, as well as policy development at the level of state and other institutions in terms of the development of inclusion in Russian society.

The study course reveals approaches in the field of public administration that make it possible to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of authorities in achieving strategic targets in the field of population. As a result of studying the discipline, students will be able to analyze key state policies in the field of demography, human potential. Special emphasis is placed on the disclosure of public health management practices, demographic processes. As part of the course, students study the mechanisms of public administration, taking into account the recommendations of international organizations, as well as national characteristics of countries.

13. Study course Comparative Analysis of Education Systems

The study course is aimed at forming students' understanding of current scientific discussion about approaches, opportunities and boundaries of comparative analysis of educational systems.

14. Study course Modern Challenges and Dimensions of Socio-Economic Development

The study course is aimed at getting students an idea of socio-economic development typologies and their indicators. A special emphasis in the course is made on measurement methodology. The course is developed for students studying in the areas of state and municipal administration, sociology and political science.

15. Human Potential Management Course. Public Administration Master's Program

The course is devoted to the problems of managing two components of human potential at once: education and health. As a result, students form a multifaceted understanding of human potential in general and the uniqueness of education and health as objects of management.

All-university Pool Educational Programs:

16. Study course Developing Soft Competencies: Linguistic, Intercultural and Creative. Theory and Practice

The study course introduces students to the theoretical prerequisites for the formation of linguistic, intercultural and creative soft competencies based on an in-depth analysis of fundamental scientific research in the relevant fields. Actualization of students' creative potential allows them to develop their creative abilities, which are formed on the basis of ordinary cognitive processes and can be used to solve everyday problems.

17. All-University elective The North and the Arctic from Point of View of Social Sciences and Humanities

This all-university elective is aimed at forming students' comprehensive understanding of the vast region, which is conventionally called ‘The North and the Arctic’, and to acquaint them with the main trends in the study of this region in modern social sciences and humanities.

18. Study course Managing Specialization and Infrastructure Provision of Arctic Territories

The study course introduces students to the concept of strategies for smart specialization of regions, in relation to the development of Arctic territories. While studying the discipline, students will get acquainted with the models of management of the development of Arctic territories, specifics of  project implementation for the development of Arctic infrastructure (social, transport, communal, etc.) and the development of resources in the Arctic.