PhD in Physical Education

Mission

Offer quality education and produce innovative knowledge in the areas of Physical Education and Sport, interacting with society.

Future vision

Promoting a new training of professional and academic training oriented to the challenges of contemporary society by developing research and producing knowledge with international insertion.

Vocation

Train professionals who assume competent leadership positions in society; develop interdisciplinary research aimed at expanding interfaces and enabling institutional cooperation inside and outside USP.

Guidelines

• Train highly qualified professionals and produce innovative knowledge.
• Intensify the relationship between Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses through teaching, research and extension activities.
• Consolidate national and international student exchange with undergraduate and graduate students.
• Consolidate lines of research by encouraging scientific production with research groups and laboratories.
• Valuing Sport as a field of knowledge and professional activity in contemporary society.
• Motivate the search for external resources through cooperation plans and research projects.
• Interact with society by offering physical activity programs and courses aimed at education, health, culture and leisure.
• Keep an Institutional Target Plan up to date that represents the collective in all areas and sectors.
• Improve institutional and performance evaluation mechanisms for teaching and non-teaching staff.
• Intensify integrated actions with other bodies at USP and outside it, and in particular with CEPEUSP and INCOR - Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology Unit.