In response to student requirement, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health program with a dusk 2018 opening -- and curriculum conductor Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm terribly elicited about it ," told Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and superintendent of the undergraduate planned director in activity 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 academies to do so ."
In addition to the field of exercise science or kinesiology, students pursuing the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health conjectures, program planning, community state blooming, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state government and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit planned can be completed in two years by full-time students and is likewise is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such graduate planneds at SHU commits a multistage proposal process that will cover vetting by faculty across a number of self-restraints , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly expected is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer answered." We look to see if there's a crack in what we already render and gauge whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those necessities ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' curriculum 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 institutions of public health and public health programs outside academies of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer added .
Candidates for the graduate 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 grade 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 committed to and provoked about improving society state ," added 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 fall .