In response to student necessitate, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health platform with a precipitate 2018 launch -- and program chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm exceedingly elicited about it ," supposed Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and superintendent of the undergraduate planned director in workout 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 academies to do so ."
In addition to the field of effort discipline or kinesiology, students prosecuting the "bachelors degree" in public health will be introduced to public health speculations, program planning, community state improvement, concession writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health government and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such postgraduate planneds at SHU concerns a multistage project process that will cover vetting by department across a number of punishes , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is repeatedly invited is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer spoke." We look to see if there's a spread in what we already present and gauge whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those demands ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' curriculum now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent authority recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit academies of public health and public health programs outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer did .
Candidates for the graduate program 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 tier 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 parish state ," mentioned 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 drop-off .
