The Department of Sports Perfection offers training to students in 49.03.01 Physical Culture and 49.03.02 Physical Culture for People with Health Related Disabilities (Adapted Physical Education) Bachelor’s degree programmes, and 49.04.01 Physical Culture (Technology of Sports Training) Master’s degree programme.
The department is actively collaborating with the SUSU Club of Physical Culture and Sports and engaging students in such sports activities as cross-country skiing, track-and-field athletics, sports orienteering, badminton, ice hockey, volleyball, basketball, boxing, chessboxing, kickboxing, football, futsal, sambo, judo, weightlifting, powerlifting, kettlebell lifting, arm wrestling, table tennis, and swimming.
The department has a GTO (Ready for Labour and Defence) Tests Centre, which conducts work in promoting healthy lifestyle, and where students can pass the Complex of Physical Culture and Sports GTO tests at all levels.
The academic staff of the department are experienced and highly qualified members of the higher school, including 11 Doctors and Candidates of Sciences, Honoured Coaches of Russia, Honoured Workers and Medallists of Physical Education, Masters of Sports and Masters of Sports of Russia of international standards.
The main fields of research work at the department are: sports physiology, long-term adaptation to high physical loads, medical and biological support of the training process.
49.03.01 Physical Culture
Students can enrol based on the results of their examinations in: Biology (Unified State Examination), Russian Language (Unified State Examination), as well as based on the results of their passing tests on physical fitness (for males: pull-up from a hang on a high bar, long jump with a push with two legs, running 1000 meters; and for females: lifting the torso from a supine position, long jump with a push with two legs, running 500 meters).
The educational process of the Bachelor’s degree programmes consists of studying: human anatomy, human physiology, pedagogy, psychology, biomechanics of motor activity, human biochemistry, methodology of sports training, therapeutic physical culture and massage, organization of physical culture and sports, sports and physical culture facilities and simulators, psychology of physical culture, theory and methodology of teaching basic types of sports, basics of anti-doping training, scientific and methodological support of the GTO tests complex, basics of sports theory, physiology of physical education and sports and more, which are necessary for future successful work.
In the course of the educational process, students will be able to take practical training in organisations relevant to physical education and sports: RSBI Administration for Sporting and Mass Participation Events, and the All-Russian GTO Physical Culture and Sports Complex in the Chelyabinsk Region, MBGEI “Sports Boarding School” in Chelyabinsk, in the SUSU Sport Science Research Centre, in the SUSU Educational and Sports Complex, and educational institutions of the city and the region.
49.03.02 Physical Culture for People with Health Related Disabilities (Adapted Physical Education)
Students can enrol based on the results of their examinations in: Biology (Unified State Examination), Russian Language (Unified State Examination), and the Basics of Healthy Lifestyle. When graduating from the university, students obtain many professional competencies, skills and abilities: they are able to methodically correctly organize the training and educational process, to assess the state of health through monitoring the internal systems of an athlete's body, and also know how to introduce the means of improving the health of children and adults into the training and educational process.
49.04.01 Physical Culture (Technology of Sports Training)
Students can enrol based on the results of their Master’s degree examination.
Master’s degree students explore the issues of increasing the effectiveness of the educational and training process of athletes through the introduction of modern innovative technologies of sports training, which are actively applied in practice by leading world-class coaches. Various modern strategies for organizing micro-, meso- and macrocycles of long-term training are proposed for consideration and study. The block structure of training with its implementation in a multi-purpose model, as well as innovative approaches to training athletes using psychophysiological technologies, are also offered for study.
Students who successfully complete the Master's degree programme have the opportunity to enrol in postgraduate studies programme.
The department provides training for students who want to connect (and many have already connected) their future professional activities with physical education and sports. The graduates of the department are successful high-in-demand specialists in the labour market.