Address: 23a. Fontanska doroga st., 65009, Odesa
Phone: (048) 719 88 31
E-mail: sport@onua.edu.ua
Working hours: Mon - Friday 8.15 - 17.00
Attendance hours: Monday: 15.00 - 17.00
Friday: 14.00 - 16.00
Head of the Department
TETYANA BARSUKOVA
Physical education as a key component of holistic personality development is presented at the National University "Odesa Law Academy" in the humanitarian section of the curriculum. Physical education is aimed at studying the general rules of preserving and strengthening the students’ health, their physical development, rational use of free time, increasing public and labor activity, forming a harmoniously developed personality of a young person. The Department of Physical Education works to implement the State Policy on Physical Education and Sports of Higher Educational Institutions and in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Higher Education" where the formation of a personal healthy lifestyle among students is regarded as one of the main targets.
Extra-curricular activities at the university are aimed at maintaining students’ health and forming a positive attitude of students towards an active, healthy lifestyle. The organization of the educational and training process with the use of modern technologies is based on sports facilities created on the university territory. The sports complex is built according to individual project meeting the requirements of European and international sports standards. This complex, unique in Ukraine, immediately became popular among the university students and staff, and residents of our city also have access to it and possibility to be engaged in exercising and various sports.
Competitions among the faculties and structural units of the university are held at the sports complex, which gives everyone who cares for their health the opportunity to have an active and full rest. During the formation of the university, an intensive process of reconstruction, restoration and expansion of the sports facilities took place, so today it is a multi-functional complex of modern buildings with a total area of more than 79 thousand square meters, of which 13,750 square meters are allocated for sports and recreation.
The main tasks of the course "Physical education" are:
- formation of future lawyers' understanding of the importance of physical health;
- sustainable motivation to lead a healthy lifestyle;
- necessity to master the basics of health recreative activities;
- preservation of moral, cultural and scientific values;
- development of the ability to think abstractly, work in a team;
- improvement of individual motor skills;
- the use of various forms of motor activity for active recreation.
The Department of Physical Education of NU "OLA" has existed since the establishment of the university and is a part of the Faculty of Cyber Security and Information Technologies. All staff of the Department has PhD in pedagogic sciences and a great work experience at high education institutions.
The staff of the department constantly seeks innovative forms and methods of teaching physical education. Recently, fitness, badminton and elements of cheerleading have been introduced. It has increased students’ activity and made the teaching process more interesting and diverse.
The department regularly holds very popular public culture, sports and health events with participation of the NU ‘OLA’ president Serhiy Kivalov. It involves students in extra sport activities and healthy lifestyle.