运动，运动与休闲哲学博士-娱乐，运动与旅游

我们的哲学博士（PhD）学位课程是一项严格的课程，着重于创造新知识和新研究以产生论文。运动，运动与休闲学院的博士学位课程为毕业生做好了准备，使其成为独立学者，鼓舞人心的老师，具有国际竞争力的高水平学术和职业生涯的领导者。该学位使毕业生为在学术，政府/政策，卫生，运动机能学和体育领域寻求广泛的职业发展做好准备，我们在这一领域的研究人员运用多种学科观点来研究体育旅游，户外休闲，保护和娱乐等问题。休闲行为。
Our researchers in this area use a variety of disciplinary perspectives to study issues including sport tourism, outdoor recreation, conservation, and leisure behaviour. The Department of Physical Education was established in 1945 as an academic department within the Faculty of Education. Professor Maury Van Vliet began its operations with a primary focus on intercollegiate athletics programs and compulsory first- and second-year physical education classes. By 1954 the Department of Physical Education became the School of Physical Education and in 1964 the status changed to that of a Faculty, making it the first of its kind in the British Commonwealth.<br><br>Since its inception, the Faculty has educated and trained generations of coaches, athletes, researchers, teachers and kinesiologists. Sports teams and organized physical training were part of the university's activities from its establishment in 1908, with the Varsity Ice Hockey men's team being the very first high performance team on the U of A campus. The Golden Bears moniker was adopted in 1935 and Pandas in 1945, and to date, the University of Alberta Golden Bears and Pandas Athletics is one of the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, consistent and successful programs in all Canadian university sport.