Establishment

The Department of Chemistry at Jizzakh State Pedagogical University was founded in 1988 and initially began its activities as the Department of General Chemistry within the Faculty of Natural Sciences. The first head was Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor Marat Sultanov. In subsequent years, the department’s activities expanded, and a system of training specialists at the bachelor’s, master’s, basic doctoral and doctoral levels was formed.
 

Development stages

In the 1999-2000 academic year, the department operated as a chemistry-biology educational direction within the faculty. Since 2001, the direction has been divided into chemistry and biology departments, and in 2006, the direction of chemistry-ecology was opened. From 2013 to the present, it has been operating under the name of the direction of chemistry teaching methods. Among the heads of the department were such experienced scientists as Shavkat Sharipov, Ergash Shomurodov, Barot Abdurahmonov, Golib Daminov, Marat Sultanov and Kamila Rashidova.
 

Current activities

Currently, the department employs more than 30 professors and teachers, among whom there are doctors of sciences, professors and candidates of sciences. The department conducts scientific research on the topic “Teaching methods based on modern pedagogical technologies and training qualified pedagogical personnel in chemistry”. Scientific and methodological cooperation has been established with republican and foreign higher educational institutions. After graduating, students work in schools, lyceums, colleges and higher education systems.