In response to student requisition, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is contributing a master of public health curriculum with a tumble 2018 open -- and platform conductor Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm particularly evoked about it ," did Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and director of the undergraduate program lead in utilization 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 class to do so ."
In addition to the field of practice discipline or kinesiology, students prosecuting the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health hypothesis, program planning, parish state change, award writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state administration and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit planned can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such postgraduate planneds at SHU commits a multistage recommendation process that includes vetting by faculty across a number of punishments , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is repeatedly questioned is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer did." We look to see if there's a spread in what we already render and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those requirements ."
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 schools of public health and public health curricula outside academies of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer mentioned .
Candidates for the graduate platform 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 energized about improving parish health ," announced 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 twilight .