| （Department of Physical Education，Nanyang Institute of Technology，Nangyang 473004，China） Abstract: The United States Sports Academy is an only independent sports university in the United States. Its bachelor’s degree program is open to any national and international student who holds a degree from higher school or complete correlative semester hours from college or university. Its goals of bachelor’s degree program mainly focus on requiring students to gain contemporary knowledge of the principles and methods in the profession of sports, reviewing issues of sport and making appropriate application of the knowledge in creating solutions, demon-strating the appropriate skills sets to work in the profession of sport. At present, it offers bachelor of degree pro-grams in sports coaching, sports management and sports studies, and courses in programs are divided into five sorts: core-course, required-course, elective-course, emphasis area and mentorship. There are three features on bachelor’s degree programs in the United States sports academy, they are as follows: the first is that prospective students are mainly from junior or community colleges; the second is that goals of the bachelor’s degree program focus on pro-ducing educated individuals who can gain the advanced theories of the sports disciplines, and make appropriate ap-plication of the knowledge in solutions of the problems; the third is that the theoretical courses take more propor-tion, but courses of spots skills are comparatively less.
Key words: school physical education；bachelor of degree；The United States Sports Academy |
