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The postgraduate student must choose one of the following directions included in the curriculum, before his/her admission:

a) Maximizing athletic performance

b) Exercise for prevention and rehabilitation

The scopes of the directions are analyzed below:

1. Maximizing athletic performance

In this direction, postgraduate students investigate issues related to coaching. Coaching guidance, laboratory and field research, development of training programs, principles of nutrition in sports, methods and techniques to improve coach effectiveness, methods of psychological support for athletes, injuries in sports, principles of exercise physiology and biomechanics are included in the subjects and scientific areas of this direction. Upon completion of the curriculum, graduates will have a clear understanding of coaching and the elements required to coach high-level teams and athletes. The job opportunities for this direction’s graduates can be found across the age and exercise spectrum, competitive and recreational sports included.

2. Exercise for prevention and rehabilitation

In this direction, the postgraduate students investigate issues related to the role and importance of exercise in improving health, they understand the particularities of health-related behavior and they specialize in designing specialized exercise programs for health, depending on the individual needs and specificities of each population category. In addition, they gain knowledge about nutritional principles and factors of physical activity participation for many population groups. This direction’s graduates acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities that enable them to staff public and private sectors in order to organize and evaluate recreational sports and exercise programs for people with chronic diseases.

In order to complete his/her obligations, a postgraduate student must successfully follow one of the two options below:

1st Option

• 7 optional courses (7 x 10 credits)
• Master's Thesis (20 credits)

2nd Option

• 9 optional courses (9 x 10 credits)

The teaching of the courses has the form of lectures, exercises in laboratories, processing and presentation of topics and intensive courses in person or using synchronous and asynchronous distance learning. The teaching of 9 out of the 13 lectures is done live and 4 (percentage 31%) remotely. Each course is offered once each year, in the fall or spring semester. Course registrations are made on predetermined dates through the online secretariat sis.auth.gr.

Attendance of lectures, workshops and practical exercises is mandatory. The maximum number of absences for each course is 2 out of 13 lectures. Postgraduate students are entitled to an additional absence, in courses that coincide with scientific conferences or other related scientific events. To justify the absence, the student must present a scientific work as an oral or posted announcement or participate in a round table as a speaker. Within one week from the day of absence, the student must submit to the secretariat the program of the conference and a certificate of presentation of the work from the organizing committee of the conference. Absences of students who participate as listeners or who present incomplete or overdue supporting documents are not justified.

In each academic year, the CO determines the beginning and the end of the courses, the way to make up for them, the duration of the examination periods, the method of examination and grading, the conditions for successful completion of the courses and everything else stipulated for the successful completion of the studies.