In have responded to student challenge, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health curriculum with a descent 2018 start -- and platform director Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm most stimulated about it ," articulated Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and administrator of the undergraduate planned administrator in effort 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 schools to do so ."
In addition to the field of exercising discipline or kinesiology, students haunting the "bachelors degree" in public health will be introduced to public health presumptions, program planning, society state change, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state disposal and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time students and is too open to part-time students .
Adding such alumnu programs at SHU concerns a multistage project process that will cover vetting by department across a number of trains , not all related to health disciplines .
" The one question that is repeatedly queried is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer supposed." We look to see if there's a spread in what we already present and be determined whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those motivations ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' curriculum 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 planneds outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer told .
Candidates for the graduate platform 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 score 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 aroused about improving parish health ," enunciated 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 precipitate .