Physical education has been an integral part of the courses offered in various universities in India since pre-Independence days. It is a course that focuses on developing physical fitness and the ability to perform and enjoy day-to-day physical activities with ease. It aims to develop student’s physical competence and knowledge of movement and safety, and their ability to use this to perform in a wide range of activities associated with the development of an active and healthy lifestyle. It also develops student’s confidence and generic skills, especially those of collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking and aesthetic appreciation.

Keeping the above view in mind our department try-

• To make the knowledge about the spectrum of physical education.
• To provide all information regarding the scope and opportunities of this subject.
• To deliver the lessons in such a way that the students feel that they are surrounded by the events of their daily lives.
• To make students more equipped with this subject by taking practical classes, class seminars, class test and by completion of syllabus in due time.
• To provide facilities to the students that they can exercise and spend time by playing in a beautiful and large sports field which helps them in their future physical development.
• To provide such benefits to the students that many types of daily new activities can be done .
• To make the knowledge perfect and matured and attain finality
• To work as consultants/mentors by the teachers to help the students to fulfill their dream and to motivate them to become ideal human being.
• To make the students more disciplined and punctual, the teachers act as friend, philosopher and guide and more specifically a coach in sports field.
• To encourage students to take part in extracurricular activities such as different level sports, NSS, fine arts, music and other cultural competitions and to do short courses on Sports Officials, Yoga, Bratachari, First Aid, Self Defense, Computer Training, Communication English to enhance their self-confidence.

The types of jobs that are available in the past based on physical education have now increased in number, scope and spectrum. Some of them are given below-

         Activity Physical Education Teacher:

• Prepares and delivers instructional Physical Education.
• Promotes student and community wellbeing.
• Involved in the co-curricular life of a School.

School Sports Director:

• Develops and manages school sport and fitness programmers.
• Motivates and coaches students to enhance sporting achievement.
• Promotes high participation.

Sports Coach:

• Supports professional, Community or school sportspeople and Groups to improve performance.
• Plans and provides training Programmers.
• Ensures the health and safety of clients.

Sports Development Officer:

• Provides sporting opportunities throughout a community.
• Assists in addressing issues such as health, crime and social inclusion.
• Provides and markets sports classes and events.

Though the admission in the department is done on merit basis, but keeping in view the concept of globalization, the age of electronic media, the best utilization of human resources and social need of the day, students hailed from underprivileged class of this district, have been given special consideration during admission. Apart from this, students having distinction in sports, fine arts, music and students hailing from the adjoining area of the locality of the college, get opportunity to take higher education in this college. The complete admission procedure is online and it adheres to the rules and regulations of Vidyasgar University and the Higher Education Dept., Govt. of West Bengal.

• No separate departmental class room for lack of space.
• One ICT enabled class room
• No separate departmental library but central library caters to the needs of the students.
• A multipurpose storeroom for equipments.
• Multipurpose playground with a 200 Meter Track, Football field, Volleyball Court, Outdoor Badminton Court, , Kabaddi Ground and Kho-Kho Ground.

For teaching purpose, the most common method, used by the departmental teachers, is chalk and talk and also practical field work. The departmental teachers use power point presentations, arrange movie and documentary shows. We have one smart class room, other class rooms as well as a play ground for the practical work. Apart from delivering lectures and distributing class notes, students are given different web links to collect study materials (YouTube, Digital Library & Google Classroom), simultaneously practical classes are conducted 5 days in a week in the play ground, which is most important in the field of sports and physical education. Department prepares a semester wise lesson plan for proper teaching and to complete the allotted syllabus in due time. Students are also encouraged to participate in class seminar and group discussions on a regular basis. As a part of Internal Assessment (10 marks) we take 2 class tests for every General paper.

Under Graduate Programme in Physical Education(General) aims to provide the students with learning experiences that help them to acquire the knowledge and tools necessary to live a physically active, intellectually motivated, socially enriched and emotionally and materially a balanced and healthy life. The Programme meant for preparing Sports Manager, Physical Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Trainer ,Health Educationist ,Coach ,Fitness Trainer, Sports Journalist, physical education teacher, assistant professor / directors / sports officers in colleges /universities and teacher educators in college of physical education and university departments of physical education. The curriculum and syllabus have been structured in such a way that each of the course meets one or more of the outcomes related to the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that students acquire as they progress through the program. Further, each course in the program spells out clear instructional objectives which are mapped to the student outcome.

• Developing socially, mentally, psychologically and spiritually for wholesome development.
• Understanding the meaning of physical education for an individual development and improving general health for professional activity to stay well and good.
• Fostering motivational attitude to the physical education, healthy lifestyle and regular exercising.
• Learning special knowledge, practical skills, which provide health protection, form compensatory process, correct present health abnormalities, provide mental prosperity, development and improvement of psychophysical skills, form professional qualities of an individual.
• Body’s adaptation for physical and mental workload and also at the increasing of the capability of physiological systems as well as raising of the resistance of immune defenses;
• Learning the methodology of formation and taking health exercises independently, the methods of self-control while exercising, hygiene rules and sound schedule for work and rest;
• Learning how to resist unfavorable factors and working conditions, decreasing fatigue during professional activities and raising the quality of results.

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Work Load of the teachers:

Total 24 classes per week are allotted general course. Out of these, 3 MDC – sports and fitness classes are allotted for single major and multidisciplinary studies. The workload of the faculty members is given below-

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Students of this department deal with versatile carrier option. Some students opt for higher studies and they are advised to take admission in reputed institutions for BEd UG Course BPEd, and PG Course MPEd, YOGA diploma, NSNIS, etc. For this, students are given the special coaching in theory as well as practical session also to solve the entrance examinations as conducted by several reputed institutions. Students who have requisite qualities for leadership, qualities of taking instant decision, are being advised to go for administrative service through competitive examinations. For this, we collect lots of magazines, newspapers which are very helpful for competitive examinations. Students, who want to face challenge, are advised to take several self-employment generated schemes, to start a start-up business.

Student Awarded in College, University, State and National Level Sports and Games

Student Progression in Higher Education

1. To make a separate departmental classroom attached with administration room.
2. To open a separate store room, attached with multipurpose gymnasium
3. To introduce student exchange programme with other institutions.
4. We are planning to organize seminars, extended lectures, excursions ,camps, workshop, officials clinic.
5. We are planning for career counseling cell.

We also are aiming to provide high quality training so that players and students can perform to their maximum potential.

1. Strength: Disciplined and sincere students.
2. Weakness: Less student strength, insufficient faculty, infrastructure, facilities.
3. Opportunity: Equipped computer lab, ICT class room ,a big play ground and good collaboration with the faculty of other institutions.
4. Challenge: To orient the student to get placed in the right position in the society and to perform well at their satisfactory level.