Improving Visualization Courses in Russian Higher Education in Computational Science and High Performance Computing

In order to keep up with the fast-paced and widespread technologies and applications of visualization, worldwide education community is actively implementing visualization courses in curricula of undergraduate and graduate programs. A study of the state of the art in the teaching visualization in Russian higher education shows the necessity to improve the quality and breadth of knowledge of the visualization courses. In this paper we propose our approach to overcome the national and historical challenges in teaching visualization in Russian STEM higher education on the example of Computational Science and High Performance Computing double degree Master's programs in ITMO University. We offer a smooth transition to the modern relevant syllabus content by presenting two courses’ designs with same width but with various depth in knowledge that should to be studied. At the end of the paper we give some discussions about future works in development visualization courses in Russia.