In response to student require, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is computing a master of public health planned with a twilight 2018 launch -- and program superintendent Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm highly roused about it ," said Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and superintendent of the undergraduate program superintendent in effort discipline." 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 effort discipline or kinesiology, students pursuing the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health speculations, program planning, parish health increase, concession 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 too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad planneds at SHU implies a multistage recommendation process that will cover vetting by module 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 programme designed ?'" Greer told." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already proposal and gauge whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those necessaries ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' curriculum 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 institutions of public health and public health curricula outside academies of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer spoke .
Candidates for the grad curriculum must have a bachelor's degree in any major from a four-year accredited university with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Additionally, they must have earned a C evaluate 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 elicited about improving society state ," responded Greer. She estimated that the initial class will include 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty members should be underway by this dusk .