In have responded to student challenge, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health program with a descent 2018 launching -- and program conductor Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm particularly aroused about it ," read Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and chairman of the undergraduate platform superintendent in exert science." 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 practice science or kinesiology, students prosecuting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health beliefs, program planning, parish state progress, gift writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health administration and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is also open to part-time students .
Adding such graduate planneds at SHU involves a multistage suggestion process that includes vetting by department across a number of trains , not all related to health disciplines .
" The one question that is repeatedly asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer read." We look to see if there's a gap in what we already render and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those necessitates ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit institutions of public health and public health planneds outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer alleged .
Candidates for the grad 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 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 evoked about improving society state ," pronounced 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 descent .
