INTER-CURRICULUM COMMUNICATIONS AS THE BASIS OF TEACHING DISCIPLINE

The analysis of teaching conditions shows that, recently, the requirements for the training of the students change actively. In this connection, new engineering disciplines and the necessity of new laboratory equipment occur. It causes the increase of teacher’s load (the study of new disciplines and laboratory equipment, methodological support). In this context, it is necessary to ensure high quality of engineering disciplines teaching to the students with different entry-level training and the capacity to learning new material. The application of inter-curriculum communications in teaching is one of the main approaches to this task solution. It can be ensured by general resources of the educational institution: pedagogical and scientific schools, laboratory and methodological base and cooperation with the enterprises (the participants of the educational process). The paper analyses the engineering disciplines taught at the Institute of Transport of Tyumen State Oil and Gas University, and the training resources. It allowed proving the possibility and the necessity of using inter-curriculum communications in teaching. As the result, the authors presented the conceptual approach in the application of inter-curriculum communications and, using the example of one engineering discipline, considered its connection with other disciplines. The paper presents the inter-curriculum communications while studying one topic in different disciplines as well. The inter-curriculum communications allow facilitating the teachers’ knowledge transfer and the students’ understanding of processes studied in one discipline while knowing the earlier studied discipline or topic. In such a way, the necessity (the expenses) for new training resources (laboratories, specialized computer programs, polygons), and the main point is that the high quality of training specialists is ensured.