Designing educational programs for applied master course

The authors present reasons requiring the change of overall approach for designing higher education programs, demonstrate approaches to designing programs oriented towards student's activities, describe approaches and principles of their design using the example iof master level programs. The relevance of the topics covered by the article is related to modernization goals of the modern Russian education. The article is of interest for university lecturers and administrators working on teaching programs modernization. Considering universal nature of approaches and notions described by the authors the article can be interesting for those working on teaching programs development in different subject areas and levels.