Information Guide for First-Year Students

Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (RSUPESY&T) known up to 1993 as State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education (SCOLIPE)

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Information guide for first-year students

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Moscow 2012

Dear first-year students!

Here are my warmest greetings to you in the walls of one of the most famous institutions of higher education in our country. I heartily congratulate you with the beginning of new academic year!

We are pleased to know that now, in 2012, we help you to open a new chapter of your life, which will be bright and memorable, because student years - the best years of life! Keep this in mind and do not waste a minute - learn, discover the world, live a true student life and use every opportunity to become professionals - individuals with a high moral and intellectual potential.

Welcome to the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism!

I wish you a joyful learning! And also I wish you a good health, success in practical activities, in improving of the professional skills; and new creative achievements and, of course, the new sports victories!

WHAT SHOULD TO DO RIGHT AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE STUDIES?

To get the student ID card and a gradebook in your institute, which will be your main documents for the entire period of study. The student is obliged to take care of the student ID and the gradebook.

To get a pass card at the room 245 (located near the main entrance). Our university has a pass system.

To join the library and to get a training literature. For this you should come to the library, which is located on the first floor of the main building, with a passport and two 3x4 cm photos.

historical Background

On May 29, 1918 it was decided to open the Moscow Institute of Physical Education at the meeting of the State Commission on Education of the Russian Federation,. This date is considered the birthday of our University.

On August 29, 1919 the first "Statute of the Institute of Physical Education" was approved.

On December 1, 1920 the Russian Government adopted a resolution of the Institute "... as the higher erudite academic institution", which won the right to be called the Central; and since 1921 - the State Central Institute of Physical Education (SCIPE). Under this name it will exist until 1934.

In 1934 the SCIPE was awarded the Order of Lenin - the highest state award of the USSR — for successes and achievements in development of Soviet sports movement, for excellent physical conditioning of students and for good organization of educational process. The name of the institution was changed - it became the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education (SCOLIPE).

In 1993 SCOLIPE was converted to the Russian State Academy of Physical Education (RSAPE) by the resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation .

In 2002 the Russian State Academy of Physical Education received the University status and became the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism (RSUPE). It was a recognition of teaching staff high professional level, educational process effectiveness, the importance of ongoing research projects and their implementation in practice of physical education, sport and professionals' training.

In 2005 the University was intensively involved to innovative activities of russian higher educational institutions, to implementing of the Bologna Declaration "of the creation of the single European higher education area". In 2007 RSUPE was declared the winner of the competitive selection of higher educational institutions who introduce the innovative educational programs and was provided with a substantial government support.

In 2011, due to the expansion of training profile, the University was renamed to the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE).

Initially, the University has been located in the former palace of Count Razumovsky at the Kazakova street, 18. In 1970 it moved to a special building complex at Sirenevyi Boulevard.

Lots of glorious pages have been entered in the history of the University. It was a regular participant of all the mass physical culture and sports parades, celebrations, events, held on Moscow's Red Square, at the Luzhniki Stadium. Among the students, graduates, faculty members there are many outstanding athletes, coaches, sports movement leadership: 137 of them are Olympic champions.

SCOLIPE is internationally declared center of a strong personnel for physical eduaction and sports training. Over the years of the University existance more than 50,000 qualified physical culture and sports specialists have been trained. The University has prepared specialists not only for Russia but also for the countries of near and far abroad. Since 1947, nearly 4,000 foreign specialists for 115 countries have been trained, not including the republics of the former USSR.

After finishing of university phase, graduates can continue their education in a post-graduate courses, and then a doctorate.

University has both eduation forms: on-site and off-site. Off-site courses and special fields are the same as on-site. Persons with higher education can be enrolled to reduced educational programs of higher professional education.

Management of University

The direct management of the RSUPESY&T carries the Rector of the University, Doctor of pedagogics, professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education, honored coach of Russia Alexander Nikolaevich Bleer.

Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies — PhD Anna Vyacheslavovna Skotnikova

Vice-Rector for Research and Innovations - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Yury Viktorovich Baykovsky.

Vice-Rector for University complex Development - PhD Andrey Vladimirovich Leksakov.

Vice-rector for Social and Pedagogics, Sport development and External relations - PhD Maxim Mikhailovich Kovylin.

STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY

Students of on-site and off-site modes are divided in four institutions:

The Institute of Sport and Physical Education prepares specialists in:

- "Physical Education";

- "Pedagogical Education".

Director of the Institute - Tamara Viktorovna Mikhailova, PhD, professor.

Location of the Institute: Administration Building, 2nd floor, room 230.

Telephone: (499) 166-53-81;

Department I - (499) 166-53-25, (495) 961-31-11 ext. 1152;

Department II - (499) 166-54-24, (495) 961-31-11 ext. 3150, 3151, 3152.

Humanitarian Institute prepares specialists in:

- "Economy";

- "Management";

- "Organization of work with young people";

- "Psychology";

- "Directing of theatrical performances and festivals";

- "Advertising and Public Relations";

- "Applied Computer Science".

Director of the Institute: Irina Pavlovna Ratnikova, PhD, associate professor.

Location of the Institute: Administration Building, 1st floor, room 108, 109.

Telephone: (499) 166-53-61.

The Institute of tourism, recreation, rehabilitation and fitness carries out the training in areas:

- "Hospitality";

- "Tourism";

- "Recreation, sports and fitness tourism";

- "Physical education for people with disabilities (Adaptive Physical Education)";

- "Nursing" (specialty — senior secondary education).

Director of the Institute: Evgeny Alexandrovich Pavlov, PhD, associate professor.

Location of the Institute: Administrative Building, 1st floor, room 102, 104.

Telephone: (499) 166-54-91, (495) 961-31-11 ext. 1468 - Director of the Institute;

(495) 961-31-11 ext. 1467 - Deputy Director;

Department I - (495) 961-31-11 ext. 1508;

Department II - (495) 961-31-11 ext. 1301.

The Institute of Science and Pedagogical Education includes: postgraduate and doctoral university, as well as the master, carrying out training in the following areas:

- "Physical Education";

- "Anthropology and Ethnology";

- "Physical education for people with health disabilities (Adaptive Physical Education)";

- "Sports";

- "Sociology";

- "Management".

Director of the Institute: Marina Vladimirovna Sakharova, PhD, associate professor.

Location of the Institute: Administration Building, 2nd floor, room 113, 206.

Telephone: (499) 166-53-42, (495) 961-31-11 ext. 1159, 1158, 1395.

Professors carrying out the educational process are distributed to departments. Currently, the university has 43 departments. Management of these units are being carried out by the department chairs. Typically, each department carries out the teaching of several disciplines. Table 1 lists the SCOLIPE departments' names, heads' of departments names, their phone numbers and location in the university.

SCOLIPE DEPARTMENTS

Table 1

Organization of educational process

A training session consists of a double classes and lasts 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Break between training sessions is 20 minutes, between 2 and 3 classes - 50 min.

The classes begin at 8-50 a.m.

1 class - 8-50 - 10-20

2 class- 10-40 - 12-10

3 class- 13-00 - 14-30

4 class- 14-50 - 16-20

5 class- 16-40 - 18-10

There can be from 3 to 5 classes during one academic day. Training sessions are held from Monday to Friday.

Classes are held according to the curriculum. Training sessions schedule for each year and training areas are placed on a special stands near the relevant institutions and at the Educational Department page of the University official website umu.sportedu.ru.

There are several forms of the training sessions: lectures and group (laboratory, seminar, practical, methodical). As a rule, the lectures are held for an educational streams. The educational stream includes students of one year or one specialty. Group classes are held for training group or specialization groups.

Each academic year is divided into two semesters, which have serial numbers from the 1st to the 10th, the semester ends with an examination session: summer and winter. During the session is held an interim attestation of students on subjects studied in the semester, in order to assess a level of educational material proficiency.

In the 2006-2007 academic year, the university has introduced a point system of training quality control. A scoring monitoring system of students' progress is one of the components of a credit system, which has been introduced by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation's order № 215 dated 29.07.2005 "About the innovations of higher education institutions on transition to the credit system."

The scoring system is being introduced to encourage systematic learning activities of students throughout the academic year and to provide control over this activity. The introduction of scoring system is also intended to stimulate the creativity of students, their independent work.

A scoring system is used to control the learning process in all subjects of the curriculum.

It provides intermediate (exam, test, semester control) and current (participation in seminars, homework, examinations, computer testing, preparation and defence of essays, passing of control standards, etc.) monitoring of progress in each discipline. This system does not apply to the final control - final state performance.

For making the final grade for the whole period of the discipline or phase of study, culminating in test or examination, a 100 - point scale is used. A student can earn points in each type of current control and in ntermediate one. Types of current control, their quantity, the number of points accrued in each kind of control over a particular discipline, are determined by leading teachers with the necessary approval of the department. The department also sets dates for each type of control.

In the absence of a student in the classroom for a valid reason (participation in sports events, conferences, exhibitions and other events), in order to support an active extracurricular research or other creative activity of students, as well as to increase the participation of students in interacademic and international events, is possible the maximum points accounting, provided in the frames of discipline for attendance.

Scoring scale of current progress in any discipline should include the possibility of examination assessment / credit without their passing, ie the student should be able to earn up to 100 points in the current progress . On this basis, the total maximum score for all types of current control should be 100 points.

In case the discipline of the curriculum does not provide any exam or test, the interim certification of a student in the discipline is performed in a form of knowledge control of current progress.