In have responded to student necessitate, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health platform with a drop 2018 opening -- and program director Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm exceedingly agitated about it ," added Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate platform lead 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 academies to do so ."
In addition to the field of exercise discipline or kinesiology, students prosecuting the "masters degree" in public health will be introduced to public health speculations, program planning, community state proliferation, grant writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health administration and ethics, 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 postgraduate programs at SHU involves a multistage proposition process that will cover vetting by faculty across a number of restraints , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is frequently queried is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer added." We look to see if there's a crack in what we already give and be determined whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those desires ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' platform now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent bureau recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit institutions of public health and public health programs outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer said .
Candidates for the graduate curriculum 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 evaluate 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 roused about improving society health ," supposed 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 drop .