The article considers the forms and methods of applying graph modeling in the teaching of students of social and humanitarian specialties. A course of graph modeling methods was read to the students of "Social Educator" specialty. The main goal of this project is to develop and consolidate the skills of structuring the problem, establishing links between the elements of the structure. As a test work, students should build a graph model of the problem they considered in their graduate work. The article gives examples of the most interesting test papers. The result of this approach was a clear statement of the purpose and objectives of the graduate work, the choice of the optimal method for its solution, a system analysis of the results obtained.