In response to student ask, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health planned with a descend 2018 launch -- and planned chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm most agitated about it ," did Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and administrator of the undergraduate curriculum head in practise 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 schools to do so ."
In addition to the field of utilization discipline or kinesiology, students haunting the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health possibilities, program planning, society health blooming, gift writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state disposal and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too open to part-time students .
Adding such postgraduate platforms at SHU concerns a multistage suggestion process that includes vetting by module across a number of disciplines , not all related to health disciplines .
" The one question that is frequently asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer replied." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already present and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at replenishing those requirements ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' platform 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 institutions of public health and public health platforms outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer mentioned .
Candidates for the postgraduate 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 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 provoked about improving society state ," did 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 descent .