In have responded to student request, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is contributing a master of public health curriculum with a fall 2018 opening -- and program head Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm particularly stimulated about it ," alleged Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate planned administrator in practice 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 schools to do so ."
In addition to the field of practise discipline or kinesiology, students engaging the "bachelors degree" in public health will be introduced to public health conjectures, program planning, society state improvement, concede writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time students and is likewise is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such postgraduate platforms at SHU concerns a multistage recommendation process that will cover vetting by department across a number of trains , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly queried is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer pronounced." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already proposal and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those requirements ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent busines recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit institutions of public health and public health curricula outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer did .
Candidates for the graduate curriculum 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 position 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 roused about improving parish state ," read 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 transgression .