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PresentationsPost-non-Classical Scientific Areas and Disciplines in University EducationМосковский государственный университет, Россия, 119991, Москва ГСП-2, Ленинские Горы, МГУ, биологический факультет, кафедра биофизики, тел.:+7(495)9390289, riznich46@mail.ru The authors aimed to draw the attention of the university community to the fact that scientific ideas and achievements of the post-non-classical period are currently beginning to disappear from university curricula. One of the important reasons for this is the loss of the main platform that allowed students to become familiar with the scientific innovations of recent decades – the course "Concepts of Modern Natural Science" (CMNS), which, since 1993, had been mandatory for most scientific fields. At the end of the last century, a group of leading Russian scientists from the Academy of Sciences and universities carried out extensive work to introduce the results of post-non-classical scientific achievements, primarily synergetics, into university curricula. At the same time, the CMNS course was being introduced into undergraduate curricula. This group included S.P. Kurdyumov, Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences; G.G. Malinetsky, one of Russia's leading experts in the field of synergetics, Head of the Department of Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Processes at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; D.I. Trubetskov, physicist, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Rector of Saratov University; V.G. Budanov, professor, physicist, and philosopher; O.P. Melehova, biologist and professor; A.D. Sukhanov, physicist and professor; and a number of other renowned specialists in various scientific fields. Their work placed particular emphasis on introducing students and university faculty to the ideas of synergetics. It was intended that a quarter of the KSE course would be devoted to it. The fate of the CMNS course began to change for the worse at the beginning of this century, and on January 13, 2010, the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Professional Education, Third Generation (FSES HPE), was introduced. According to the new standard, the CMNS course was no longer part of the basic (mandatory) section of the natural sciences curriculum, but rather an elective (specialized) section determined by the university. Currently, this course is absent from virtually all universities in the country. The authors of this paper analyze the reasons for this, discuss the importance of teaching the course, and conclude that it is absolutely necessary to reinstate the CMNS course in university curricula.
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