In have responded to student ask, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is computing a master of public health curriculum with a drop 2018 open -- and curriculum superintendent Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm excessively aroused about it ," said Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and lead of the undergraduate planned administrator in exercise 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 institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of workout science or kinesiology, students haunting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health assumptions, program planning, community state developing, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state administration and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad planneds at SHU involves a multistage overture process that includes vetting by faculty across a number of penalties , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is frequently queried is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer replied." We look to see if there's a gap in what we already present and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those motives ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' program 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 schools of public health and public health planneds outside institutions of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer added .
Candidates for the alumnu 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 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 is fully committed to and stimulated about improving society health ," read 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 .