In have responded to student require, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health platform with a drop 2018 opening -- and planned superintendent Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm exceedingly elicited about it ," told Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and head of the undergraduate platform head in practice science." We have a growing number of students who are interested in going a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of exert discipline or kinesiology, students pursuing the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health possibilities, program planning, parish state progress, concede writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state government and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time students and is likewise is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad curricula at SHU involves a multistage recommendation process that will cover vetting by faculty across a number of penalizes , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is frequently questioned is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer told." We look to see if there's a spread in what we already volunteer and gauge whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those necessities ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' platform 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 curricula outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer pronounced .
Candidates for the graduate 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 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 is fully committed to and evoked about improving society health ," read 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 tumble .