In have responded to student involve, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is computing a master of public health curriculum with a fail 2018 open -- and planned superintendent Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm terribly roused about it ," pronounced Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and conductor of the undergraduate program conductor in use 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 institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of activity science or kinesiology, students haunting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health assumptions, program planning, community health progress, award writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit planned can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad curricula at SHU commits a multistage project process that includes vetting by faculty across a number of penalties , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly requested is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer added." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already present and gauge 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' curriculum 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 institutions of public health and public health curricula outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer enunciated .
Candidates for the graduate 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 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 provoked about improving community state ," read 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 tumble .
