In have responded to student requisition, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health planned with a descend 2018 launching -- and planned chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm exceedingly agitated about it ," announced Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate platform head in use discipline." 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 schools to do so ."
In addition to the field of effort science or kinesiology, students following the "masters degree" in public health will be introduced to public health conjectures, program planning, parish state progress, concede writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state organisation and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too open to part-time students .
Adding such postgraduate programs at SHU implies a multistage proposal process that will cover vetting by department across a number of punishes , not all related to health disciplines .
" The one question that is repeatedly invited is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer responded." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already present and be determined whether enough beings 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 authority recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit academies of public health and public health platforms outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer remarked .
Candidates for the alumnu 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 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 agitated about improving parish health ," 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 die .