In have responded to student involve, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is adding a master of public health platform with a sink 2018 launch -- and platform administrator Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm exceedingly agitated about it ," mentioned Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and conductor of the undergraduate program lead 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 practice science or kinesiology, students haunting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health speculations, program planning, parish health proliferation, grant writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state disposal and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also open to part-time students .
Adding such grad programs at SHU involves a multistage suggestion process that will cover vetting by department across a number of trains , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer read." We look to see if there's a crack in what we already present and be determined whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those necessitates ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' program now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent authority recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools of public health and public health curricula outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer said .
Candidates for the alumnu 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 gradation 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 agitated about improving community health ," told Greer. She estimated that the initial class will include 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty member should be underway by this precipitate .