In response to student necessitate, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is adding a master of public health curriculum with a fail 2018 opening -- and planned director Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm terribly stimulated about it ," pronounced Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and superintendent of the undergraduate planned head in exercise science." 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 institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of rehearsal science or kinesiology, students prosecuting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health conjectures, program planning, society state occurrence, award writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such graduate planneds at SHU involves a multistage proposition process that will cover vetting by department across a number of penalizes , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly queried is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer replied." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already furnish 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' platform now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent enterprise recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit class of public health and public health planneds outside institutions of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer suggested .
Candidates for the postgraduate program 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 committed to and evoked about improving society health ," supposed Greer. She estimated that the initial class will include 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty member should be underway by this descend .