In response to student expect, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health platform with a tumble 2018 launching -- and planned conductor Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm most agitated about it ," added Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate platform lead in exercise discipline." 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 exercising discipline or kinesiology, students following the "masters degree" in public health will be introduced to public health theories, program planning, society state developing, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health government and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such alumnu programs at SHU implies a multistage project process that includes vetting by department across a number of penalties , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly requested is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer said." We look to see if there's a crack in what we already furnish and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at replenishing those requires ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' program now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent enterprise recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools of public health and public health planneds outside institutions of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer pronounced .
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 score 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 parish state ," replied 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 .