Sport and Health Science
Three orientations of Physical Education / athletics can be distinguished:
- Competition athletics, which can take place with or without an audience.
- Instrumental athletics, where athletics are used as a means of achieving other purposes, such as reducing stress, losing weight or to meet other people.
- Existential athletics, also called recreational athletics, practiced for the sake of it, to make you feel good when it is practiced.
In the subject Physical Education at Högskolan Dalarna all three orientations are treated.
There is the possibility to pick up knowledge of sports, such as how skating is done or how a spear is thrown, about athletics, for instance what rules apply in volleyball, and by way of athletics, where the most obvious example is to gain knowledge about your own body at work and resting. All three aspects of gaining knowledge, when it comes to athletics, are treated in education at Högskolan Dalarna.
