Department of Sports & Leisure Studies

The Department of Sports and Leisure Studies was originally established as Department of Sports Instructor in 2000 but the name was changed to its current name in 2006. The Department of Sports and Leisure Studies is aimed at producing instructors who can develop and popularize the culture of ‘Sports for All’ as well as elite sports, create suitable environment for sports and effectively increase people’s desire to improve their health and participate in sports. The Department offers an outstanding sports and leisure activity instructors program designed to produce top-notch instructors who are equipped with sport and leisure theories as well as practical skills.

Location : Rm.806, Ogui Hall

Tel : 82-2-940-5206

Fax : 82-2-941-5678

Website : http://sports.kw.ac.kr

Course Descriptions

Understanding Sports Science

Introducing the academic fields of various physical education, including humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and practical skills, which make up physical education.

Basic major practical skill

understand a wide range of physical activities, which are essential for living a healthy life, and also understand psychological movements that seek to make emotional, cognitive and psychological changes. Through this, we want to analyze and study the actual conditions of easy, fun, and applicable physical activities and psychological movements in physical and sports activities.

sports sociology

This course is focused on the theories and methods of research concerning sports as a main social activity of human beings.

Sports and Exercise Psychology

This course will cover basic theories of sports psychology, looking into psychological aspects of problems' traits that are often faced in the sports field.

Windsurfing

Windsurfing and water skiing are representative water leisure sports that can be enjoyed by family or office workers or club members because they are easy to learn. By acquiring practical skills and theories of windsurfing and water skiing, this subject learns how to enjoy and guide water sports safely.

Soccer

This course covers history of soccer, various skills, new strategy and tactics. In addition, students will be encouraged to prepare for a referee's license exam, and become a sports leader.

kinetic functional anatomy

You will study the skeletal system, muscular system, respiratory system, circular system, nervous system, sensory system and so on in detail so that you will understand functions of the human body and grasp its subtle structures. This course will provide useful knowledge for prospective sports leaders.

Racquet sports

Understand the rules and methods of playing racquet Sports (tennis) and understand the principles of competition skills and utilize the skills in transforming and formal games.

Sports Big Data Analysis

Improve logical thinking by handling open-source R programs and Jamovi and SPSS to make it easier to access the recent Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Sports for the Elderly

A sports program for senior citizens is presented to maintain and promote the health of senior citizens by properly recognizing the health problems of senior citizens.

Sports business administration

Understand the overall status of the sports industry, analyze domestic and foreign business environment factors concerning the sports industry, and systematically analyze and learn areas such as management system, marketing, production management, personnel and organization management, financial management, etc.

Sports nutrition

It provides nutritional knowledge related to health, such as prevention of aging and weight control for the general public, and presents the results of recent studies related to nutrition guidelines, fatigue recovery and nutritional supplements for athletes.

Scuba diving

You can learn from the beginner to intermediate and advanced skills of skin scuba through theoretical classes step by step. Through intensive practical classes, you can explore the sea directly and obtain a certificate above Openwater.

Golf

This course deals with A to Z of golf including its origin, basic techniques, rules and etiquette.

Physical Education Measurement and Evaluation

It understands the knowledge of the overall physical education and measures the areas of sports activities such as standardized physical fitness tests, physical fitness, athletic abilities and functional tests, and deals with theories and practices of evaluation methods.

Career Development and Employment Strategy

In order to explore the career paths of students in departments and to improve the employment rate, professional professionals in various sports-related fields are invited to give special lectures on employment and provide opportunities for field trips (visiting) to the areas of interest.

field practice

Learn various professional guidance techniques that can be applied on the spot and learn field guidance skills as a leader. acquire relevant expertise that can be used effectively in the field.

Exercise inspection and prescription

Understand the significance, goals, methods, and experimental matters of exercise prescription in accordance with general physical education experiments, and guide them to do basic statistical processing and report preparation of basic manipulation methods and experimental results.

A Study on Sports Applied to the Comprehensive Design Method

In order to develop the ability to conduct research in the field of physical education, procedures related to the selection of research questions and the preparation of reports are learned step by step. Learn and learn statistical methods of analyzing data obtained from actual experiments and surveys, and learn them through tasks.

pathophysiology

It is the study of diseases from a physiological point of view.

emergency treatment in daily life

First aid means giving immediate treatment to someone who is suddenly sick or injured. In other words, it's not a substitute for hospital treatment, but it's a temporary help until you have a chance to recover without it.

orienteering

It is a nature-friendly outdoor sport that finds several points on the map in as short as possible, and develops the ability to act quickly and accurately under any circumstances based on direction detection and stamina in unknown terrain.

Training methodology

An effective training method is acquired through theoretical systemization on the improvement of physical strength and exercise prescription through training.

kinetic physiology

Analyzing and investigating physiological phenomena and changes that occur through physical activity, the mechanism of metabolism is identified, and the physiological phenomena and physiological adaptation process of physical function during exercise are studied.

Sports Media

Based on knowledge related to sports and media, they learn about the preparation and editing of news articles through discussions, lectures, special lectures, practical courses, etc. to explore the possibility of entry into the field of sports media industry and cultivate necessary qualities and abilities.

Sports counseling

Based on sports psychology, the purpose of this subject is to acquire the theory and knowledge of sports psychological counseling for the application of psychological technology to improve athletes' performance and improve their health through athletic participants' participation, and to lay the foundation for future activities as sports psychological counselors. To that end, this class will be conducted to redefine the contents of sports psychology related to the improvement of athletes' performance and the participation of the general public in sports, to understand and learn the basic concepts and processes of sports psychological counseling, measurement of psychological skills and techniques necessary for counseling.

Sports information

Sports information is to collect large amounts of information found in sports and sports sites, classify, process and process according to the purpose and intention of the need, and to create useful information for us using tools such as human thinking and computers. This book provides various sports information in each field.

Leisure studies

Understanding the identity of leisure, which increases interest in modern society, and analyzing the social, economic, and cultural aspects related to leisure, through which the right understanding of leisure, the direction of leadership who will work in leisure, and the theoretical or practical guidance of leisure industry are cultivated.

Exercise development and special sports

Disability is an area that everyone should be interested in in in the age of diversity, individuality and rapidly changing information services. Even if you have a disability, we will try to understand a wide range of sports and sports that anyone can participate in and study ways to improve the quality of life of the disabled.

winter sports

Learn basic skills and application skills in winter sports events such as skiing and snowboarding, and understand competition rules and basic knowledge so that actual competitions can be played. It also develops the ability to carry out ski and snowboard competitions.

Sports industry studies

Understand each industrial structure according to the sports industry criteria classification table and predict and forecast the environmental changes in the sports market in the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution era.

sports education

To understand sports pedagogy, I would like to look into the history of sports education and the realm of sports education.

kinetic learning and control

It deals with effective practice methods, methods of providing feedback, memories, and mechanisms of learning motion for efficient learning.

Sports biomechanicals

The scientific analysis and comparative review of sports movements provides basic scientific data to enhance athletes' skills to a new level and to provide effective guidance in the future.

Sports Policy and Administration

A study is conducted on the phenomenon that the sports sector of modern society is developing into a more specialized sports science area combined with the sports industry, social welfare, and sports administration.

field practice2

Opportunities for on-site training shall be granted to foster on-site guidance and administrative management skills under the cooperation of the District Office's the Department of Sports and Sports for All, the National Sports Center, and the Association of Sports for All by Sports.

ACADEMICS KW University