Gujarat, India (CU)_ Beginning this academic year, the Faculty of Education and Psychology of M S University will offer two sports and health-related postgraduate courses. A three-year bachelor’s degree in physical education and sports as well as a postgraduate diploma in health and fitness were recently authorized by the faculty board.
Sports psychology, sports medicine, sports training, fitness-wellness, injury treatment, sports management and the related theory and practical disciplines are some of the courses included in the bachelor of physical education, which has a total of 144 credits. Meanwhile, a one-year post-graduate diploma will allow students to study courses such as exercise physiology, nutrition, gym administration, injury and rehabilitation, as well as practicals such as yoga, aerobics, calisthenics, and freehand workouts.
R C Patel, faculty dean professor, detailed the additional benefits of studying these courses. He said, “Students will also be taught games including athletics, kho-kho, kabaddi, yoga, malkhamb, tennis, table tennis, hockey, cricket, volleyball, judo, football. The students will have the opportunity to learn Indian traditional games along with modern games”. R C Patel said that all of the programs will most likely be provided by the Department of Physical Education. He said, “Students will have career opportunities as fitness experts, gym trainers, sports trainers after completing this post-graduate diploma”.
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, earlier known as Baroda College, is a public university in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. It began as a college in 1881 and achieved university status in 1949, following the country’s independence. It was then called Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the previous monarch of Baroda State. Undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate programs are available at the university. It has 89 departments dispersed over six campuses, two rural and four urban, spanning a total of 275 acres.
