Educational goals of the study program of Recreation are in compliance with modern tendencies in education pertaining to organizers of sports recreation worldwide and with needs of a wider community. They result from objective perception of the state of recreation, Sport for all, fitness, wellness and tourism in our country and the necessity to educate professional staff in this field.

Educational goals of the basic professional studies of the study program of Recreation are formation of a modern, competent and independent organizer of sports recreation trained for all forms of professional and practical activities. He/she is trained to successfully apply all relevant methods and resources, to plan and program sports and recreational activities as well as to implement in practice technological achievements in the field of fitness, wellness and animation in tourism. This involves acquiring certain theoretical and especially practical, applicable knowledge in the field of sport and recreation, i.e. modifying sports training and competition according to abilities of participants, as follows:

• acquiring certain knowledge in the fields of: psychology, sociology, anatomy, physiology, biology, pedagogy, nutrition, etc.,
• narrow specific and applicative knowledge such as history of sport, theory of sport, theories of sports training, technology of sports training, specific sports branches and disciplines and the like,
• general knowledge important for an organizer of sports recreation, such as computer science and English language,
• knowledge from the field of organization and administration in sport.

Instructional contents of courses taught in the study program of Recreation are in function of training students for independent application of all relevant methods, technologies and organization of realization of recreative activities. They are harmonized with the needs of recreation of citizens of all ages, i.e. the widest community. An organizer of sports recreation is fully trained to work in clubs for recreation, fitness club, sports and recreational center, wellness center, schools of sport, sports associations, organizations and associations Sport for all, in hotels, resorts and the like.

To sum up, basic goals of the study program include:

• Provision of quality practice aiming at professional improvement and work,
• Application of adequate methodology and procedure during operations,
• Education of professionals with autonomous/ personal knowledge that will be used in individual/group/collective work.

Special attention is paid to developing abilities to integrate acquired knowledge and apply it in practice. In that sense, one of important goals is to stimulate development of creative and innovative skills, critical thinking and initiative of students.

Aims of the study program are fully consistent with the basic tasks and goals of the Faculty of Sport and Physical education.