In response to student demand, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health platform with a fall 2018 open -- and planned lead Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm extremely evoked about it ," said Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate planned chairman in activity science." We have a growing number of students who are interested in going a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other class to do so ."
In addition to the field of use discipline or kinesiology, students prosecuting the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health theories, program planning, community health change, grant writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is likewise open to part-time students .
Adding such graduate platforms at SHU concerns a multistage proposition process that includes vetting by department across a number of trains , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer alleged." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already render and gauge whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those involves ."
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 academies of public health and public health platforms outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer added .
Candidates for the graduate 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 score 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 agitated about improving parish state ," read Greer. She estimated that the initial class will be incorporated in 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty members should be underway by this drop .