| （Guangzhou Sport University，Guangzhou 510500，China） Abstract: By taking Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education for example, the authors contemplated the issue of the cultivation of leisure sports professionals in such aspects as specialty construction and development ideas, ob-jectives and specifications of professional cultivation, modes of professional cultivation, curriculum setup, practical teaching and specialty features, and put forward the following opinions: for specialty construction and development, specialty orientation should be first determined, and the specialty should be orientated to adapting to social needs, relying on scholastic features, and basing on students; what institutes of higher learning need to cultivate are profes-sionals needed by the society; future development of the society is the base point for professional cultivation; the leisure sport specialty should try to establish the objective of cultivating professionals with “extensive expertise, profound foundation, strong capability and high caliber”, and to cultivate extroverted, complex and application type professionals who have solid basic knowledge, theoretical knowledge, strong capability of specialized practice, and innovative spirit; the curriculum should be set up and teaching contents should be organized by focusing on the cul-tivation of student’s comprehensive capability, emphasizing practicability and applicability, basing on capability, and adapting to the needs of occupational posts; the feature of the leisure sports specialty can be summed up as cul-tivating high caliber application type leisure sports professionals for leading developments and serving the society in the future.
Key words: leisure sports specialty；professional cultivation；curriculum setup；Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education |
