About the unit

The purpose of studying the academic subject “Physical Education and Health” is:

• formation of physical culture of the individual, improvement of students’ health and their preparation for professional activities;

• formation of healthy lifestyle skills, training in the use in practice of physical education knowledge, motor skills and abilities oriented towards future professional activities, necessary for independent physical education and sports;

• formation of knowledge about the human body, its culture as a system of norms aimed at the professional and personal development of the future specialist;

• fostering a caring attitude towards one’s own health as a social value;

• development and consolidation of a sustainable need for physical education, health and sports activities;

• increasing the importance of Olympic culture in shaping the worldview of students;

• promoting harmonious physical development, maintaining and strengthening health;

• increasing mental performance, preventing diseases and stressful conditions by means of physical culture;

• mastering knowledge, developing skills and abilities, nurturing professionally important psychological and physical qualities necessary in future professional activities;

• formation of special knowledge, skills and abilities that ensure life safety;

• Successful mastery of physical education material helps to increase the level of physical fitness and ensures future professional performance.

In the process of studying an academic subject, a clear idea is formed of how physical exercise affects the body, what are the ways and means of healing the body. Students realize the importance of the physical potential of future professional activities.

Study work

The following academic disciplines are assigned to the cycle commission “Physical Education”:

1. Physical culture and health

2. Pre-conscription (medical) training