Special sports training majors do not belong to the sports category

In most formal scenarios such as the Ministry of Education’s official subject catalog, civil service recruitment, and public institution examinations, special sports training majors 100% belong to the sports category. Only in some unofficial subdivision scenarios are there classification disputes. The essence is a mismatch between employer preferences and official classifications.

In the past two years, I helped the newly retired members of the provincial team fill out the college entrance examination application. I tore through the "Undergraduate Major Catalog of General Colleges and Universities" which was as thick as a brick. It clearly stated: The first-level subject under the education category is physical education, and the professional code prefix is 0403, below. The first one listed is physical education (040301), the second one is sports training (040302), followed by social sports guidance and management, martial arts and traditional national sports, sports rehabilitation, etc., all of which are members of the serious sports category. The professional catalog of the junior college section is more direct. The ones starting with 6704 are sports, and the code for sports training is 670401. They are even ranked first in order. There is nothing to argue about the official ownership.

But why do people always ask this question? The doubts I have encountered basically come from real situations of job hunting and further education. To put it bluntly, many people confuse "official classification" with "personal/unit preference".

Speaking of which, a junior girl who practiced sabering complained to me a while ago. She applied for a physical education teacher position at the district education bureau, but she was turned back after the initial review. The staff said, "We want a major in physical education, and your sports training does not count." She was so angry that she sent a screenshot of the professional catalog published by the Ministry of Education to the recruitment consultation email on the spot, and passed the preliminary review that afternoon. Later, when she joined the job, she found out that the HR girl who was the preliminary reviewer had just graduated. She only knew the major of physical education and did not understand that there were so many subdivisions under the general category of sports.

There are indeed some people who firmly believe that sports training is not a "standard sports category." I have also talked to many people who hold this view. They can be roughly divided into two categories: one is an old teacher who has been working in basic physical education for 20 or 30 years. The colleagues who have been in contact with him all his life are all from physical education majors. They subconsciously feel that those who are trained in sports training "can only practice special events and cannot teach children broadcast gymnastics." They simply put this major into the niche category of "professional team related" and do not count it as a general sports category.； There is also a group of scholars engaged in sports humanities and social sciences research. Occasionally in meetings in the circle, they will joke and say, "We who do theory are the core of sports, and those who practice special subjects belong to technical positions." But these are all jokes. When it comes to applying for projects and evaluating the results of discipline construction, no one will say that teachers in the field of sports training do not belong to the discipline of sports.

In fact, this is just like when you go to a fruit store to buy fruits. The sports category is the fruit section of the entire store, the sports training category is premium fruits such as cherries and sunshine roses, and the physical education category is popular fruits such as apples and oranges. Just because some people usually only eat apples and oranges, you can’t say that cherries are not fruits, right? I was helping a friend's fitness studio recruit coaches before, and a young girl with a manpower chased me and asked me, "Are sports training majors better at strength training than physical education majors?" ”If you say it's interesting, no one will worry about whether it belongs to the sports category. Instead, they think it is more relevant.

I have been doing job matching in the sports industry for almost ten years. To be honest, when I encounter situations where the sports training major is stuck, 99% of the cases are because the other party does not understand the professional directory. If you really show the official documents, it can basically be solved. The remaining 1% is because the position itself has hidden requirements. For example, if you want to recruit people with internship experience in basic education, and deliberately narrow the sports category to physical education, that is another matter, and it has nothing to do with the classification itself.

Anyway, next time someone asks you this question, don't talk about anything else, just report the professional code, 040302, a serious sports son, which is more convincing than anything else. If you really encounter someone who is unreasonable, there is no need to fight. Most likely, they don’t want to recruit you in the first place and are just looking for an excuse.