Among the general, professional and special competences are:
- to be fluent in the Russian/Kazakh language in its literary form;
- to be able to apply knowledge of the basic norms of the modern Russian/Kazakh language in various spheres of professional communication;
- to create various types of texts in Russian/Kazakh in oral and written form;
- to understand history, current state and prospects of the development of philology;
- to know basic concepts and concepts in the field of general linguistics, the theory and history of the Russian language, the theory of communication, the history of Russian and world literature; representation of various genres of literary and folklore texts;
- to collect and analyze linguistic and literary facts, philological analysis and interpretation of the text.