The Department of theory and methodology of physical education and sports disciplines was founded in 1980 as the Department of theory and methodology of physical education.
The department specializes in training physical education teachers.
The scientific research is related to study of pedagogical conditions for the formation of the personality of a physical education teacher at the stage of basic professional training, the development of a regional component of the content of physical education for students in the Ryazan Region, as well as monitoring the psychophysical state of schoolchildren in the region.