Course Description

The course covers the leading organisations and institutions associated with physical education, sport and outdoor life in Norway. Administrative procedures are a vital part of the course. Students will be given responsibility for the planning, organisation and practical execution of a sports arrangement such as a soccer tournament, a track and field event, winter-week activities for foreign students, and/or an obstacle-course competition or similar event.

Course topics:

• public administration and culture/sport-related policies
• regulations and procedures
• forms of public funding for sports and outdoor activities
• structure of sport and outdoor life organisations and other organisations and institutions
• sports and volunteer work
• sports and the commercial marketplace
• planning, organising and executing various types of sports arrangements

Assessment Methods

Specialisation in a self chosen sport policy topic (counting for 40 %) with a subsequent oral examination (counting for 60%).

Inspection reports: pass/fail. Arrangement reports: pass/fail. Practical training report: pass/fail. (All reports must be awarded a passing grade before the student may take the oral examination).

If students fail one or more examinations, students need only to take the examination in which they received a failing grade.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean