In response to student challenge, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is adding a master of public health curriculum with a descent 2018 launch -- and planned head Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm extremely agitated about it ," did Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and chairman of the undergraduate platform chairman in activity 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 class to do so ."
In addition to the field of utilization science or kinesiology, students haunting the "masters degree" in public health will be introduced to public health hypothesis, program planning, society health evolution, gift writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health organisation and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time students and is too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad curricula at SHU implies a multistage suggestion process that will cover vetting by module across a number of self-restraints , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly asked is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer enunciated." We look to see if there's a crack in what we already present and be determined whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those wants ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent busines recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit class of public health and public health curricula outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer told .
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 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 committed to and roused about improving parish state ," articulated 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 descend .