In response to student requirement, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health planned with a descent 2018 launching -- and program chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm terribly roused about it ," told Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and administrator of the undergraduate program chairman in workout 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 institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of exercise discipline or kinesiology, students following the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health assumptions, program planning, parish health improvement, concede writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health government 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 graduate planneds at SHU concerns a multistage project process that will cover vetting by faculty across a number of subjects , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is frequently expected is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer responded." We look to see if there's a crack in what we already volunteer and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at replenishing 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 agency 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 announced .
Candidates for the postgraduate 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 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 is fully committed to and provoked about improving parish state ," answered 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 twilight .