As an international direct student at USC, you’ll receive:

• Exclusive and rigorous academic coursework
• Priority access to in-demand courses that fit your interests
• Guidance from academic advisors and mentors
• Career development and networking opportunities
• Intensive classes with domestic students

Quality physical education is a gateway to the lifetime pursuit of individual excellence. Physical education provides a foundation to ensure today’s children grow up to become tomorrow’s role models for healthy and active lifestyles. Our bachelor’s degree students develop a broad range of competencies, including developing confidence, motivation and self-management in students, and working with school leadership to create physically active school climates.

All our programs incorporate an apprenticeship model of education, where you will engage in hands-on, authentic learning experiences alongside professionals in the field. Over the course of several practicums and a student teaching internship while working on your bachelor’s, you will teach physical education lessons in elementary and secondary schools to students with and without disabilities. You will also promote physical literacy in a wide range of other school and community contexts. Additionally, you will write grants, review for academic journals, and provide professional development for teachers. You will study effective professional practice in physical education. Some examples include physical education curriculum and instruction, adapted physical education, sports coaching techniques, motor behavior, and the psychology, philosophy, and history of physical education.

The field of physical education has a wide array of possibilities. Our undergraduate degree programs can help you become certified to teach in elementary and secondary schools. You might decide to explore a career in physical education teaching, adapted physical education teaching, sports coaching, or school- and community-wide physical activity programming.