In response to student challenge, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health platform with a descend 2018 open -- and platform chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm terribly elicited about it ," added Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and lead of the undergraduate curriculum superintendent in practise science." We have a growing number of students who are interested in coming 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 "bachelors degree" in public health will be introduced to public health beliefs, program planning, community state increase, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state government and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such graduate planneds at SHU concerns a multistage overture process that includes vetting by department across a number of trains , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is frequently asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer responded." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already volunteer and gauge whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those necessaries ."
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 planneds outside institutions of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer alleged .
Candidates for the graduate 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 position or highest 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 agitated about improving parish health ," remarked 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 autumn .