In have responded to student expect, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health curriculum with a dusk 2018 launching -- and program superintendent Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm particularly energized about it ," read Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and chairman of the undergraduate program chairman in workout science." We have a growing number of students who are interested in coming a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other schools to do so ."
In addition to the field of usage science or kinesiology, students engaging the "bachelors degree" in public health will be introduced to public health thoughts, program planning, society health improvement, gift writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state administration and moralities, 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 grad curricula at SHU commits a multistage proposition process that will cover vetting by module across a number of self-restraints , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is frequently queried is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer announced." We look to see if there's a spread in what we already furnish and be determined whether enough people 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 organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools of public health and public health planneds outside academies of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer alleged .
Candidates for the alumnu platform 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 evaluate 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 elicited about improving community health ," announced Greer. She estimated that the initial class will be incorporated in 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty members should be underway by this autumn .