In have responded to student expect, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is contributing a master of public health curriculum with a dusk 2018 start -- and curriculum chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm unusually stimulated about it ," suggested Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate platform lead in practise science." We have a growing number of students who are interested in going a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other schools to do so ."
In addition to the field of effort discipline or kinesiology, students pursuing the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health presumptions, program planning, community health growth, concession writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such graduate curricula at SHU involves a multistage recommendation process that includes vetting by module across a number of methods , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is frequently invited is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer told." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already present and be determined whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at replenishing those wants ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' program now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent enterprise recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit institutions of public health and public health platforms outside institutions of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer told .
Candidates for the postgraduate planned must have a bachelor's degree in any significant from a four-year accredited university with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Additionally, they must have earned a C position or higher in college-level pre-calculus, statistics and sociology or psychology .
" I want to build a program that facilitates the development of other qualified public health professionals committed to and evoked about improving community state ," suggested Greer. She estimated that the initial class will be incorporated in 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty members should be underway by this transgression .