In have responded to student involve, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health program with a drop-off 2018 open -- and platform administrator Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm terribly roused about it ," supposed Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and conductor of the undergraduate program head in employ 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 class to do so ."
In addition to the field of workout discipline or kinesiology, students haunting the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health speculations, program planning, parish state proliferation, concession writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health administration and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad platforms at SHU involves a multistage recommendation process that will cover vetting by module across a number of punishes , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is frequently invited is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer responded." We look to see if there's a spread in what we already present and gauge whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those motivations ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned 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 institutions of public health and public health curricula outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer remarked .
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 point or higher 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 energized about improving parish health ," read 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 sink .