School of Physical Education in
Xi’an University was established in July, 2019, formerly known as the Sports
Department of Xi’an Teachers College founded in 1959. In 2003, the school was
upgraded into a four-year program in the
university. In 2007, it was authorized to confer Bachelor degree. Since 2015,
it has worked together in agreement with Xi’an Physical Education University
and Yan’an University in graduate program training , which is the main training base for Sports teachers in Xi’an
education system.
School of Physical Education
includes the Department of Physical Education, Teaching Department of University
Sports,, Group Competition Training Center,
Experimental Venue Management and Local Cooperation Center, Student Physical
Fitness Test Center, Sports and Health Research Institute.. It undertakes the
courses involved in Physical Education majors and University Sports . At the same
time, it is responsible for the physical fitness test, sunshine sports, sports
training and other activities of the whole university. The school has a faculty
of 44 full-time teachers, including four professors, 18 associate professors, 21
lecturers, and one teaching assistant.There are 4 full-time lab and teaching
assistants. 22 of the faculty have
obtained master’s degree, 20 are dual-qualified
teachers, and four experts are employed as part-time professors,
which has formed a reasonable structure of the teaching team . Since 2013, the
school has a current enrollment of over 283 full-time undergraduates from 13
provinces across the country.
The school now has two 400-meter
standard stadiums (with football field inside), one multi-functional gymnasium,
one gymnastics hall, one fencing hall, one taekwondo gymnasium, one swimming
pool, and 23 outdoor ball courts. More than that, one sports health laboratory, one sports
anatomy laboratory, one exercise physiology laboratory, and multiple multimedia
classrooms are also set up. The school has more than 10,000 professional books
and six internship training bases.
Over the years, the School has
actively carried out international and domestic exchanges and cooperation
programs, and successively hosted the “China (Xi’an), Japan (Nara), South Korea
(Gyeongju) International Sister Cities Sports Competition”, “The 25th Shaanxi
University Student Track and Field Games”, the “12th The National College
Student Fencing Championship” and the “Shaanxi Student Fencing Championship” and
other various competitions, which have been highly appraised by the organizers.
Since 2000, students of the school have won 56 gold medals, 48 silver medals,
and 62 bronze medals in the National University Fencing Championships. The
school Rouli Ball team has won many championships in national, provincial and
municipal competitions in recent years. The school Rope Skipping team has won two
golds, three silvers, and four bronzes in the 2019 National Rope Skipping
Championships. The school Women’s Football team won the first place in the “The
Second University Student 5-a-side of Shaanxi ProvinceCompetition”. The school teams
of Track and Field, Swimming, Orienteering, Basketball, Roller Skating, Table Tennis,
Aerobics, Tennis have repeatedly
achieved good results in provincial and municipal competitions.
The School of Physical Education has been committed
in improving quality in teaching, research, mass sports, and sports training,.
Driven by innovation, the school has trained thousands of sports talents
for the country and made important
contributions to the development of sports, education, technology, and culture
development in the region. Graduates
have performed outstandingly in their
jobs and achieved excellent results, with
an emergence of many advanced practitioners and managers . In the new era, the
School of Sport will continue to deepen the reform of education and teaching,
accelerate the construction and development of Sports disciplines, and strive
to raise the level of school Sport to a new level.
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