Since 1874 PE was introduced as compulsory two-time-a-week classes in Croatian common elementary schools
• in 1875 Miroslav Singer organized the first training course for the Croatian
common elementary PE teachers in Zagreb and in 1884 compulsory PE classes were also introduced into the Croatian secondary schools
• in 1894 - 1896 Franjo Bučar organized a two-year course for gymnastics’ teachers in Zagreb (a photo above). Thirty participants from all regions of Croatia successfully completed the course
• in 1896 the Association of Gymnastics Teachers of Croatia and Slavonia was established
• from 1927 a PE teacher’s study was accessible for students enrolled at the Zagreb Faculty of Art as Study Group C
• in 1945 the Higher Physical Education School (College) was established in Zagreb. It worked one year only
• in 1947 the Secondary School for Physical Culture was established in Zagreb
• from 1948 physical education specialists were being trained at the Higher School (College) of Pedagogics in Zagreb and from 1961 at the Academies of Pedagogics in Croatian regional centres
• in 1952 the Institute for Physical Culture was established in Zagreb in order to improve scientific and professional research in the field of physical education and sport
• on July 7, 1959 the Parliament of the People’s Republic of Croatia passed the Law on the High School of Physical Culture in Zagreb
• teaching at the High School of Physical Culture started on November 3, 1959, in the premises of the Institute for Physical Culture, Kačićeva Street 23, for the first generation of 76 students
• first thirteen students graduated from the High School of Physical Culture at the end of the 1962/63 academic year: Vladimir Kostrić, Branko Miler, Viktro Šnajder, Mirko Relac, Miloš Mraković, Nikola Jurković, Slavica Crnek, Višnja Varga, Nevenka Pernar, Branimir Kuleš, Nataša Viskić, Marija Jagurić i Petar Dujmović
• in 1965/66 academic year the part-time study (VI/1) for higher sport coaches education has been established
• in 1966/67 academic year the first part of the new premises at the then new address Horvaćanski zavoj 15 has been completed
• on October 31, 1967 the High School (College) of Physical Culture was incorporated into the University of Zagreb
• in 1971 the first issue of the scientific journal KINEZIOLOGIJA was publised
• since 1874 PE was introduced as compulsory two-time-a-week classes in Croatian common elementary schools
• in 1875 Miroslav Singer organized the first training course for the Croatian
common elementary PE teachers in Zagreb
• in the 1971/72 academic year postgraduate study programmes were initiated at the High School (College) of Physical Culture
• in the same year the Computing Centre has been established within the Institute for Kinesiology; it was the second computing centre at the University of Zagreb
• in the 1973/74 academic year the High School of Physical Culture changed its name into the Faculty of Physical Culture (Education)
• in 1981/82 academic year the building of the Faculty of PE was finally finished (started even in the year 1961); the largest sports hall for sports games was opened. It finally enabled almost all the teaching to be performed on one location in Zagreb
• together with the design of the new curriculum of the postgraduate scientific study of kinesiology (Master of Science nad Doctor of Philosopy) in the academic year 1983/04 the curriculum of the new postgraduate specialist study was created
• in 1991 students and professors of the Faculty of PE established a volunteer - armed fighting unit called MIG. During the Croatian War for Independence they gave an exceptional contribution to the defence of Croatian autonomy by
organizing and joining a special police unit called ALFA and also units with the other Croatian army and police armed forces. Sadly, nine students laid
down their lives for their homeland.
• on September 29, 1997 the Faculty of Physical Culture (Education) Council reached a decision to initiate the procedure for renaming the Faculty of Physical Culture into the Faculty of Kinesiology
During the past half a century...
More than 3,650 teachers of physical education and organizers of sport recreation have successfully completed the four-year undergraduate university study programme and attained a baccalaureate degree in kinesiology. During the last five years (2000-2005) the average annual total enrolment in all four years of the undergraduate study is 1,295 full-time students. After the completion of the postgraduate study and by defending their Master’s thesis 240 candidates attained a Master of Science degree, and 79 candidates were awarded a social science - field of kinesiology - Doctoral degree. There are still a certain number of postgraduate candidates who prepare their Master’s thesis for the Master of Science in kinesiology and Master of Specialty degrees attainment. They are the students in
the last generation of the scientific postgraduate study outside the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). The same is valid for several Doctor of Philosophy candidates, with the Master of Science degree, who are in the process of attaining a Doctoral academic degree outside the PhD studies (tutorial system). The first generation of 57 students enrolled on their three-year-long doctoral study of kinesiology, prepared in alignment with the European standards and Bologna Declaration, in the academic 2006/07 year.
