Strategic priorities of teaching Humanities at the technical university

This paper is devoted to the consideration and analysis of integral humanitarian knowledge influence on training of competitive engineering personnel for work and successful adaptation in extremely uncomfortable climatic conditions of the Arctic. The paper analyzes the forms and methods of consolidated participation of humanitarian and specialized departments of St. Petersburg Mining University in the preparation and adjustment of training programs, professionally focused on the formation and development of general cultural and professional competencies. The authors focus on promising ways of forming personal qualities and social communication skills of oil and gas industry specialists with a high level of motivation for career success, satisfaction with the process of obtaining knowledge. The paper describes such qualities of a future specialist as self-efficacy, associated with the presence of confidence in achieving the desired result due to the necessary competencies; self-esteem, contributing to the creation of a favorable psychological climate in the team, the growth of the level of criticism and demands on oneself, a rational attitude to success and failure. Special attention is paid to the consideration of professional competence as the main quality that provides competitive advantages of a graduate of a technical university. The formation of such qualities as initiative, mobility, ability to make independent decisions, ability to quickly adapt to the professional environment and habitat, is considered in the paper as a necessary condition for the systemic development of personality.