In have responded to student ask, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health platform with a descend 2018 propel -- and platform chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm highly elicited about it ," answered Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate planned conductor in usage 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 institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of practice science or kinesiology, students haunting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health theories, program planning, parish state growing, grant writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state administration and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time students and is too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad platforms at SHU implies a multistage suggestion process that will cover vetting by faculty across a number of punishments , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is frequently invited is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer enunciated." We look to see if there's a gap in what we already volunteer and gauge whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those needs ."
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 schools of public health and public health programs outside academies of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer responded .
Candidates for the alumnu planned 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 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 elicited about improving community health ," announced 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 transgression .