THE ESSENCE OF FORMATION OF THE INTEGRATED SOCIO-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL TOURISM

The approved standards of the state documents require modernization of the system of continuous education of the Russian Federation on the ground of competence-based approach. The state educational standards on each discipline of curricula of the universities provide a list of competences that the students should gain in the course of study. However, the problem is that this discrete process of the competences formation is not followed by their integration. The students have to be responsible for achievement of integrity of autonomous competences in the form of integrated competencies, and they are not prepared for that.

The analysis of researches and publications, which studied the aspects of this problem and which the author accepts as the ground, shows that the problem should be solved in such a way that the process of autonomous formation of individual competences of students has to be supported by pedagogically managed integration, and attainment of their integrity. One of such integral units studied by many researchers is the socio-cultural competence which represents integrative set of social and cultural competences. However, the unsolved part of the problem under discussion is design of the process of formation of socio-cultural competency of students in the form of pedagogical system with inherent structural components: purpose, contents, methods, features of activity of teachers and students.

The purpose of this work is in justification of the structure and maintenance of system of formation of socio-cultural competence of undergraduate students on the example of training specialists in historical and cultural tourism. The following ideas are used as a foundation for reaching this purpose and gaining the objectives:

- continuity, phasing, and-to-end nature of the process of integral competence formation;

- use of potential opportunities of all disciplines of the curriculum in competence formation;

- distinguishing the priority of the formed component of socio-cultural competence at each stage;

- introduction into the program of the course "Creative self-development of socio-cultural competence of students" and the program of advanced training course for university teachers on formation of socio-cultural competency of students.