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Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

History of Physical Culture

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 713-0006/01
Abbreviation HTK
Course title History of Physical Culture
Credits 2
Coordinating department Institute of Physical Education and Sports
Course coordinator Mgr. Miroslav Pacut

Subject syllabus

1. Definition of basic terms (history, culture, physical culture), physical culture of the oldest civilizations
2. Physical culture of ancient Crete and ancient Greece
3. Creation of ancient Olympic games and its development in archaic and Augustan age
4. Hellenist Greece – Roman age of antic Olympic games
5. Physical culture of ancient Rome and the Middle Ages
6. Humanism, enlightenment and philanthropism in physical culture
7. Ling’s Swedish physical training system
8. Jahn-Eiselen’s German system
9. English system of sports and games
10. Natural physical training methods, women physical culture and sport, scouting, YMCA
11. Creation of modern Olympic games and their development until the Second World War
12. Olympic games after the Second World War
13. Physical culture in Czech lands until World War II
14. Physical culture in Czech lands after World War II

Literature

PARKS, J.B.: Contemporary Sport Management. Human Kinetics Publishers, 2008.
950 s.

Advised literature

1.PARKS, J.B.: Contemporary Sport Management. Human Kinetics Publishers, 2008.
950 s.