[] About Program
Coaching Education Department aims to help students see learning programs prepared with a modern educational approaches. The four-year program, students will have sufficient knowledge of general culture and sports can apply basic sports skills,able to follow the athlete's development and physical structure of the well known and their development, capable of training program for performance improvement and can follow the test with the athlete development, have good communication skills,dominate the sports psychology, sports specific training methods, knows, in the process of teaching materials and can be used to develop the material, different age groups and with a high level proficiency in knowledge and skills.
[] Goals

Graduate coaches who can demand the technological and scientific innovations and have the ability of analytic thinking and plan by giving theoretical and practical education based on universal knowledge and teaching in selected sports.

[] Objectives

Give the education for graduate coaches who can make and apply scientific training programs using current researches and technologies in the frame of ethical principles, to present the obtained knowledge to the humankind usage and become one of the leading research and teaching foundations in national and international area.

[] Education Language
Turkish
[] Degree to Be Won

The Bachelor's Degree in Coaching ( first cycle in Coaching) is awarded to the graduates who have successfully completed 4 years of program in the curriculum.

[] Earned Level of Qualification

It is a programme that provides undergraduate (first cycle) education.

[] Admission Requirements
Aplication and admission of circumstances to register for Duzce University Sport Academy Coaching Department and Duzce Univesity senate's suggestion are depend on Turkish Council of Higher Education's decision. The general requirements explained in “General Admission Requirements” of Information on the Institution part are applied for admission of students.
[] Course's Contrubution To Program

To complete the available courses in the program (a total of 240 ECTS) successfully, the students have to get at least 50 points out of 100 and required to achieve 2.50 on a 4.00 weighted grade point average. To graduate from the programs students should get at least DD in all of the courses provided. Students are also required to complete the compulsory practice in the specified ​time.

[] Recognition of Prior Learning

Students enrolled in DU might be exempted from certain courses within the framework of certain regulations. A student can be exempted from a certain course provided related course content previously received from another institution complies with that of DU, which is subject to approval and verification by the Board of faculty/graduate school/school.

Recognition of Education Abroad

DU recognises academic terms and courses studied by a student that has been involved in an exchange programme for one or two terms at the universities with which a partnership was established.

Students that are selected to avail themselves of Student Mobility for Studies under ERASMUS are obliged to draw up an education agreement with relevant ERASMUS Unit Coordination prior to the mobility term. The education agreement demonstrates the courses to be studied at the partner university the student intends to go, as well as appropriate ECTS credits.

In addition to this, students shall be asked to issue a Recognition Sheet, which refers to the equivalent of foreign courses in DU, so that the credit transfer is planned and approved.

At the end of the exchange term, the courses studied abroad are recorded and demonstrated in the transcript, together with the original course codes and names and ECTS credits. Pursuant to ERASMUS Programme and Collaboration Agreements concluded thereunto, official transcripts will quote, an abbreviation signal of ET, European Transfer, for the courses studied abroad.

[] Description of Program

Coaching Education Department needs to train their sports trainer about sports  in  our country. This department  movement training and sports science related lectures are given in the health sciences and applications Coaching Education Department who graduated can work  ,in  professional and amateur sports clubs, Youth and Sports General Director  of central or provincial organizations and schools that  affiliated to the Ministry of Education ,as coaches. In addition to sporting activities such as teaching in a personel  gym  and  tourism sector  take part in the organization.

[] Program Requirements
No Program Requirements
1 Students are provided with a comprehensive knowledge of sports
2 Students acquire a high level of knowledge, experience and skills in their specialized sports branch
3 Students acquire basic knowledge of the structures of the body
4 Students acquire basic knowledge on health issues for athletes
5 Students acquire knowledge on the developmental characteristics of athletes
6 Students are improved the attitudes and practices associated with learning processes
7 Students gain knowledge and competency for the assessment of the human motor system and sport specific motor skills
8 Students are provided with the ability to apply fundamental skills specific to sports
9 Students are provided with the necessary skills for assessing and developing sport specific performances
10 Students are provided with skills for improvement of sport-health related applications
11 Students are provided with knowledge, experience and skills in the field of disability sports
12 Students acquire competency in planning and managing recreational sports events
13 Students gain competency to plan, organize and report on sports events
14 Students provide effective communication skills and knowledge in the athlete-family-trainer-manager relationship in the context of sports events and processes
15 Students acquire effective communication skills on general topics and sport related issues
[] TYYÇ - Based on the Adequacy-Relationship Adequacy of Program
[] Professional Profile of Graduates

Graduates work as trainer, insructor, sports specialist and conditioning coach in related sports federations, local sport authotity, clubs, special elemantary and high school and colleges. The standard occupation profile for coaches are: 1) Coach of participation-oriented sports persons and Coach of beginners (child, junior, adult) and 2) Coach of performance-oriented athletes.

[] The Upper Stage of a Transition
The graduates holding Bachelor’s Degree are eligible to apply to Master’s Degree programmes who have valid puan from ALES and foreign language exam, that national level and /or international level both in the same and in related disciplines. At the Master level an specialization in "Movement and Training Sciences" exist.
[] Program Structure

Programme of the Coaching Education Department carries out a dense curriculum.;Its education plan aims to educate a good trainer, specialist and conditioning coach in sports branches selected who shows minumum 3 years sport licence when they apply the univesity entry exam. Education programme of the depertmant include optional and compulsory lessons related with training profession and general culture. Before graduating students completed their internship training in sports clubs related to their sports branches lasted for two terms in their forth year.

[] Examinations, Assessment and Grading

For each course, the method of assessment and grading is defined "Course Information Form" in details. Click for more information about regulations.


[] Graduation Requirements
    Students are required to complete 150 credits at the national level, 20 credits of which comprise elective courses to graduate from the Coaching Department, Faculty of Education. The credits required for the European Credit Transfer System are determined as 30 for each term, totalling to 240 credits overall. Coaching Education is a four-year program and the medium of instruction is Turkish. Every term comprising a 14-week academic term includes midterms, assignments, projects and such assessment activities besides final exams at the end of the term. In addition, to qualify for graduation, each student is required to perform a 14-day internship in industry. Although internship is a prerequisite for graduation, it happens to be a non-credit requirement. The experience to acquire during internship and the required workload are addressed upon the analysis of the content, the practice and the required workload of the courses in the program. Besides, each student is required to accomplish a graduation project and to present his or her thesis as well. To qualify as graduates of the Coaching Education Department, it is required that students attend the courses in the program and to be successful in all with a GPA (General Point Average) at least 2.50 out of 4. Students are expected to have completed all the courses indicated in the instruction plan and fulfilled the demands in line with the regulations and rules of action ,completing the required credits. Also students are required to have participated in one of the camps in the training program (Summer, Winter and Mountain Camps)
[] Type of Training
Full-Time
[] Dean and Assistant Deans
Director
Prof. Dr. Selahattin AKPINAR
E-Mail:selahattinakpinar@duzce.edu.tr

[] Programme Director
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep İnci KARADENİZLİ
E-Mail:incikaradenizli@duzce.edu.tr
[] Academic Staff
  • Head of Department
       Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep İnci KARADENİZLİ
       incikaradenizli@duzce.edu.tr

  • Faculty Member
       Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep İnci KARADENİZLİ
       incikaradenizli@duzce.edu.tr

  • Faculty Member
       Assist. Prof. Dr. Emre TÜREGÜN
       emreturegun@duzce.edu.tr

  • Faculty Member
       Assist. Prof. Dr. Önder ŞEMŞEK
       ondersemsek@duzce.edu.tr

  • Lecturer
       Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kadir TİRYAKİ
       kadirtiryaki@duzce.edu.tr