In have responded to student demand, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is contributing a master of public health platform with a tumble 2018 opening -- and planned chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm extremely stimulated about it ," suggested Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and director of the undergraduate program conductor in exercising 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 class to do so ."
In addition to the field of exercise science or kinesiology, students haunting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health possibilities, program planning, society health blooming, award writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too open to part-time students .
Adding such grad platforms at SHU implies a multistage proposal process that includes vetting by department across a number of studies , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is frequently asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer supposed." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already render and gauge whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those requirements ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned 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 schools of public health and public health curricula outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer supposed .
Candidates for the postgraduate curriculum 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 position 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 is fully committed to and evoked about improving community state ," enunciated 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 sink .