In have responded to student demand, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is contributing a master of public health platform with a sink 2018 opening -- and curriculum chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm unusually agitated about it ," pronounced Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and superintendent of the undergraduate curriculum chairman in rehearsal science." We have a growing number of students who are interested in getting a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of exert discipline or kinesiology, students haunting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health conjectures, program planning, parish health occurrence, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is likewise open to part-time students .
Adding such postgraduate planneds at SHU implies a multistage recommendation process that will cover vetting by faculty across a number of punishes , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly expected is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer suggested." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already give and be determined whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those involves ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent bureau recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit class of public health and public health planneds outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer said .
Candidates for the grad program must have a bachelor's degree in any major from a four-year accredited university with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Additionally, they must have earned a C evaluate 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 committed to and stimulated about improving society health ," said Greer. She estimated that the initial class will be incorporated in 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty member should be underway by this autumn .