Motto: "Hardwork will move a mountain that marketing communication never dreamed of" (a paraphrase of Jack London's statement).

The employees of the department provide teaching in a wide range of subjects for all study programs accredited at FTVS, in lifelong learning courses and participate in European educational programs. The research activity of the members of the department, which corresponds to their educational activities, is developed within the program for the development of the scientific field Sport Sciences - Social and in other scientific projects. It is mainly focused on the following areas:

- physical education and sports in the historical and philosophical context of the development of society

- the phenomenon of sport in contemporary society, its effects and organizational forms

- physical prerequisites for movement and diagnosis of human motor skills

- sports science methodology

- physical education and sports pedagogy

- didactics of school physical education

- educational psychology and sports psychology.