The department of physical education has been managed by four directors since
its establishment, they include: Dr. Mehdi Namazizadeh, Dr. Asghar Khaledan, Dr.
Hashem Kouzechian, and Dr. Mohammad Ehsani.
The department?s office is located on the ground floor of the Faculty of Humanities
and it currently has a lab located in the basement of the Faculty of Humanities.
The Laboratory of Sport Sciences is used for different purposes, i.e. as a classroom,
a place for providing practical units to students, and a place for carrying out
students? theses (it enjoys the necessary equipment for sports physiology tests).
This department offers sport management programs in two branches of: sports marketing
management and leisure time management at graduate and doctoral levels. It also
offers sports physiology, sports neuromuscular and sports metabolism, for both master
and Ph.D. students. Based on theses and dissertations that have been defended by
the alumni of this department, research areas mostly fall into the following topics:
- Marketing management in sports
- Management of leisure time in sports
- Human Resources Management in Sports
- Sports tourism management
- Neuromuscular studies
- Sports immunology
- Sports metabolism
- Sports nutrition
The strategic objectives of the department are generally in two areas of education and research as follows:
A) Educational Objectives:
- Updating teaching methods and curricula with world standards
- Increased participation in the development of physical education through
workshops and training courses
- Updating educational content to create entrepreneurial skills in students
and communicate with business
- Continuous assessment of the quality of education and the use of first-level
teachers in the teaching of subject matters
- Planning and adopting the necessary measures to fund and strengthen the
financial resources and attract educational facilities for equipping the lab
B) Research Objectives:
- Aligning the department?s research interests with the global changes and
developments and updating research
- Driving research into applied projects and communicating with industry
- Taking into account the needs of the community and covering them in the
form of research cores and group research projects (master plan)
- Trying to commercialize research results and helping realize the relationship
between the research, production and service sectors of the community
- Contributing to the dissemination and development of technology and attracting
the funds of research centers and related organizations
- Encouraging research with the goal of achieving new technologies to produce
new services and products
C) Provision of specialized services:
- Providing conceptual lab designs for assessing physical activity and sports
- Trying to create associations related to fields of studies offered by the
department
- dentifying the sports specialties required by the university / society and
introducing the specialists to organizations for sports counseling
- Organizing scientific and educational workshops related to the field of
sports science for staff and faculty members
- Preparing the grounds for the publication of an international journal to
present scientific findings to experts and scholars
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