In have responded to student involve, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health program with a twilight 2018 launching -- and program chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm highly elicited about it ," added Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and lead of the undergraduate planned head in exercise 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 institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of activity science or kinesiology, students haunting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health conjectures, program planning, community health growth, grant writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state administration and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such graduate curricula at SHU commits a multistage proposal process that will cover vetting by module across a number of punishes , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is frequently requested is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer replied." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already offering and be determined whether enough beings 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 agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit institutions of public health and public health platforms outside institutions of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer mentioned .
Candidates for the grad program 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 grade 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 evoked about improving society state ," remarked 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 fail .