我们的哲学博士（PhD）学位课程是一项严格的课程，着重于创造新知识和新研究以产生论文。运动，运动与休闲学院的博士学位课程为毕业生做好了准备，使其成为独立学者，鼓舞人心的老师，具有国际竞争力的高水平学术和职业生涯的领导者。该学位使毕业生为在学术，政府/政策，卫生，运动机能学和体育领域追求广泛的职业发展做好准备，该领域的研究人员使用以下方法研究体育表现和参与多个竞赛级别（从青年到大学再到精英）的过程心理，管理和社会文化观点。我们着眼于教练，运动员，父母和运动系统。
Researchers in this area study sport performance and participation across multiple levels of competition (from youth to college to elite), using psychological, management and sociocultural perspectives. We look at coaches, athletes, parents and sport systems. The Department of Physical Education was established in 1945 as an academic department within the Faculty of Education. Professor Maury Van Vliet began its operations with a primary focus on intercollegiate athletics programs and compulsory first- and second-year physical education classes.<br><br>By 1954 the Department of Physical Education became the School of Physical Education and in 1964 the status changed to that of a Faculty, making it the first of its kind in the British Commonwealth.<br><br>Since its inception, the Faculty has educated and trained generations of coaches, athletes, researchers, teachers and kinesiologists. Sports teams and organized physical training were part of the university's activities from its establishment in 1908, with the Varsity Ice Hockey men's team being the very first high performance team on the U of A campus. The Golden Bears moniker was adopted in 1935 and Pandas in 1945, and to date, the University of Alberta Golden Bears and Pandas Athletics is one of the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, consistent and successful programs in all Canadian university sport