Departmenet of Sports and Physical Education Educational Policy

Admission Policy

The educational objective of the Department of Sports and Physical Education is to develop students' human abilities so they can contribute to "health for all," by equipping them with the rich humanity and advanced expertise and practical abilities  they will need as instructors to support people's—and particularly adolescents'—competitive sports activities safely and scientifically, with maintaining and promoting good health as the basic principles.
The department also offers courses for obtaining junior and senior high school teaching licenses (for health and physical education), and for obtaining the basic qualifications needed to be trainers and specialized sports instructors (application pending for accreditation).
These courses provide students with a unique curriculum that will equip them with the practical abilities to provide more effective and scientific support, as well as the advanced expertise as trainers who handle sports injuries or support training, or as coaches or other instructors in competitive sports settings.
For this reason, the department is looking for people who have aspirations like those in the following, and a strong sense of purpose toward achieving them:

1

People who are interested in competitive sports activities, and aspire to be athletes or instructors who have an abundance of human abilities and the expertise and practical skills needed to improve people's competitiveness in a safe and scientific manner.
2

People who are interested in the physical care, conditioning, etc. of athletes, and aspire to be instructors who have an abundance of human abilities and the expertise and skills needed to support athletes.
3

People who are interested in physical education in schools, and aspire to be instructors who have an abundance of human abilities and the expertise and practical skills needed to safely instruct children in physical education and sports activities.

The department offers a diverse range of curriculum content related to competitive sports activities, including improving competitiveness, handling sports injuries and teaching sports skills. Based on this, we hope our students have the knowledge and skills that will be useful in physical education and sports settings. The admission examinations assess candidates in terms of their knowledge and skills, ability to think, make judgments, and express themselves, and attitude toward independently learning by cooperating with a variety of people.

Curriculum Policy

In order to achieve the above educational objectives and diploma policy, the department will systematically deploy the following 10 subject groups as "specialized education subjects." For the lower school years, together with understanding each individual student's learning situation through small-group education, it will establish specialized basic practice-based subjects in order to better link the general and specialized education subjects. For the specialized, comprehensive class-based subjects for learning how to provide instruction for adolescents' physical education and sports activities and for specialized, competitive sports activities, and for learning how to prevent and handle sports injuries, the department will develop practical subjects with instructional methods as the main content in parallel with the basic knowledge gained through lecture-based subjects, and in addition to this, systematically and sequentially deploy related exercise- and practice-based subjects.
In addition, to enable students to take subjects in a more specialized and effective manner for the fields they want and choose, depending on their individual future plans, the department will also set up the following three study model courses: "Competitive Sports Course," "Trainer Course," and "Sports Education Course."

Outline of Academic Disciplines

Health Science (All-Department)

This subject group is for students to acquire a comprehensive knowledge about physical, mental, and social health (including the mental and physical changes that accompany getting older), in order to acquire a broad knowledge about the importance of health and about exercises, nutrition, and rest (refreshment) for maintaining and improving it.

Growth and Development

This subject group is for students to learn about adolescents' mental and physical growth and development processes, understand the factors to consider in physical education and sports, and in addition, acquire a comprehensive knowledge about physical and mental health needed in school settings.

Sports Science

This subject group is for students to understand the historical and cultural background of sports instruction, and the roles and principles of and laws, etc. related to sports, and in addition, develop ethical outlooks through sports, acquire skills for managing social structures and group behavior (including regarding sports-related facilities and the government agencies that run them), and become able to provide scientific instruction based on psychological and natural science knowledge in sports activities.

Sports Medicine

This subject group is for students to acquire knowledge about the body structures and functions, its physiological responses to exercise, and the effects, etc. that exercise has on it, and in addition, acquire medical knowledge about sports environments and mental and physical conditioning.

Sports Disorders

This subject group is for students to acquire knowledge and skills related to, e.g., the basic first aid needed for safety and emergencies, and how to prevent and handle the injuries, etc. they are likely to encounter in physical education and sports activities or when working as trainers in competitive sports activities.

Athletic Sports

This subject group is for students to acquire knowledge about competitive sports' history, organization, operation, rules, etc., knowledge about how to handle the interpersonal, drug, and other issues that arise in sports settings, and knowledge and tips about second careers (post-retirement careers).

Instruction Methods of Physical Education

This subject group is for students to improve their practical abilities for providing practical instruction for physical education in schools and instruction for competitive sports activities, and in order to achieve that, also learn how to devise and deploy the necessary individually tailored instruction methods.

Practice and research for Athletic Trainer

These exercise- and practice-based subjects are for students to further improve their practical abilities as trainers in physical education and sports activities and competitive sports activities.

Specialized Practice Research

This subject group is for students to further improve their individual expertise and ability to apply it. This is achieved as follows: in the lower school years, they do extensive, diverse basic exercises in their specialized fields to increase their interest in health and sports; in the upper school years, they do research and exercises by splitting up into the specialized fields they are more interested in.

Others

The department will also offer the subjects necessary for obtaining qualifications, offering them as other subject groups.

Diploma Policy

The Department of Sports and Physical Education awards students with Bachelor Degree of Arts in Sports and Physical Education when the requirements of the prescribed credits and skills below have been satisfied.

1

Students those who acquire expertise related to the body structures and functions and improving competitiveness, and can accordingly provide instruction for sports activities in a scientific manner.
2

Students those who acquire expertise related to the physical and mental characteristics of adolescents, and can accordingly provide instruction for sports activities that takes safety into account.
3

Students those who acquire expertise and skills on physical care, conditioning, etc., and can accordingly provide instruction for sports activities.
4

Students those who acquire the skills and practical instruction methods needed for physical education in schools, and can put them to practical use.
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