In response to student require, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health platform with a tumble 2018 launch -- and planned head Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm highly evoked about it ," added Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate planned administrator in practise science." We have a growing number of students who are interested in get a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other schools to do so ."
In addition to the field of effort science or kinesiology, students prosecuting the "bachelors degree" in public health will be introduced to public health thoughts, program planning, society health increase, concede writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health organisation and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time students and is likewise open to part-time students .
Adding such grad curricula at SHU implies a multistage proposition process that will cover vetting by faculty across a number of punishes , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is frequently asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer did." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already give and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those needs ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' platform now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit class of public health and public health curricula outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer responded .
Candidates for the grad planned 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 score 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 evoked about improving parish state ," pronounced 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 transgression .