Department of Physical Education

Physical education is a subject in which students seek to improve quality of life, to develop physical strength, and promote health, steadiness of emotion, and socialization. The department seeks a successful development of physical education and sports culture at the same time. Students of this department also participate in improving physical strength and motor skills, mastering knowledge about exercising and health, and learning desirable attitudes and socially valuable rules in various sports to accomplish this purpose.
The Department offers all students the curriculum to master knowledge about sports philosophy and history, sports psychology, exercise physiology, sports biomechanics, sports sociology, health and hygiene, and training courses to master ball sports, physical strength, gymnastics exercise, individual and collective exercises, dancing, and swimming.
This Department produces graduates who become teachers in middle and high schools, as coaches and instructors in elite sports and health centers, and as researchers in sports institutes.

Careers

A large number of graduates work at middle and high schools. Others go on to graduate schools to pursue more advanced careers.

Contact Information

• Phone : +82-62-530-2550
• Homepage : http://physicaledu.jnu.ac.kr