In response to student ask, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health curriculum with a come 2018 launch -- and planned head Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm most stimulated about it ," responded Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and conductor of the undergraduate program chairman in exert 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 rehearsal science or kinesiology, students haunting the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health beliefs, program planning, community health development, award writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state administration and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad planneds at SHU concerns a multistage proposal process that includes vetting by faculty across a number of self-restraints , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly questioned is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer mentioned." We look to see if there's a crack in what we already volunteer and gauge whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those motives ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent busines recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit class of public health and public health curricula outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer articulated .
Candidates for the grad curriculum 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 point 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 is fully committed to and evoked about improving community state ," announced Greer. She estimated that the initial class will include 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty members should be underway by this dusk .