In response to student involve, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health curriculum with a tumble 2018 launch -- and curriculum chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm unusually evoked about it ," added Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and lead of the undergraduate planned lead in employ science." 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 academies to do so ."
In addition to the field of activity discipline or kinesiology, students haunting the "masters degree" in public health will be introduced to public health hypothesis, program planning, parish health growth, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health organisation and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad programs at SHU commits a multistage proposal process that includes vetting by module across a number of subjects , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly invited is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer announced." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already give and gauge whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those necessaries ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' curriculum 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 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 spoke .
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 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 elicited about improving community health ," mentioned 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 sink .