Educational goals of the study program of the Professional studies of Recreation aims at formation of a modern, competent and independent organizer of recreation, enabled for all forms of organization and realization of practical activities in the field of recreation. He is capable to successfully apply all relevant technologies and methods, as well as to implement the latest technological achievements in the field of recreation, fitness, animation in tourism and sport for all. He is trained to form and lead a society, association or an institution for sport and recreation.

The aims of the program are to comply with the relevant global tendencies and make students familiar with the issues in recreation, necessary conditions for realization of recreative fitness activities, procedures of making plans and programs in recreation, ways of organizing different recreational activities. Based on rules of the world of fitness in a way which is appropriate for animation of recreative activities in tourism, the studied contribute to the development of the movement Sport for all.

Upon completion of this study program, students acquire professional title of an Organizer of sports recreation in accordance with the Law on Higher Education Education and the List of professional, academic and scientific ranks.

The admission requirements for the study program are prescribed by the Law on Higher Education, Statute of the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education and special eligibility criteria. All persons who completed four-year secondary education can apply for admission to the Faculty.

The study program Recreation consists of 24 obligatory courses (20 one-semester and 4 two-semester ones), 24 elective courses and the final paper.

Contents and a detailed description of the courses are provided in the Program specification of the Study program of Recreation.

The program realization is specific for the study of physical education, sport and recreation. The classes are held in the Faculty facilities; but a part of teaching activities (practical exercises and professional practice) is also held in clubs for recreation, fitness clubs, sports and recreational centres, schools of sport, hotels, as well as in other institutions, non-government organizations and associations the Faculty cooperates with. This study program, besides acquisition of practical knowledge and skills, particularly focuses on education and training of students for independent practical work.

Professional practice is organized in every semester in clubs for recreation, fitness clubs, sports and recreational centres, schools of sport, organizations and associations of sport, as well as in other institutions the Faculty cooperates with.

The length of this cycle of the study program is 3 years (6 semesters) with a total workload of 180 ECTS credits.

Each course of the study program is expressed by the number of ECTS credits, and the scope of study is expressed by the sum of ECTS credits. The sum of 60 ECTS credits corresponds to the average total workload of a student during a 40-hour workweek of an academic year, and is evenly distributed, so that a student can accumulate 30 ECTS credits in each semester.

3 ECTS credits are allocated for the final paper of the study program of the Basic professional studies of Recreation.

To register for some courses you have to gain a defined minimum of the completed examination prerequisites in the previous semester courses.

A student of another faculty is entitled to move to the study program of Physical Education and Sport under the conditions prescribed by applicable law, Statute and the Faculty Rulebook on the content, measures and organization of the Basic professional studies of the Faculty.