Formation of Creativity Skills in Engineering Education Through the Disciplines of the Humanitarian and Legal Cycle

The article substantiates the role of creativity in the formation of meta-competencies of students, future engineers. The experience of the departments of transport law and personnel management of the Samara State Transport University (Samara, Russia) in teaching disciplines of socio-economic and humanitarian cycles is analyzed. Examples of successful pedagogical practice of using various forms of interaction between teachers and students in the learning process are given: discussion, business role-playing game, essay. The position on the relationship between the formation of students' creative abilities in the process of conducting such classes and their subsequent transformation in engineering education is argued. A parallel is drawn between academic education in higher education and the creative forms of work of students and teachers. The level of students' creative potential is made dependent on the professional level of the teaching staff; at the same time, the most important role of the latter is emphasized. The article discusses in detail the universal competencies formed in the process of training in engineering specialties, and their relationship with the disciplines of the socio-economic and humanitarian cycle.