In response to student ask, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health planned with a dusk 2018 launch -- and platform head Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm terribly excited about it ," articulated Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and administrator of the undergraduate curriculum chairman in practice 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 institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of use discipline or kinesiology, students seeking the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health philosophies, program planning, society health increase, concede writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health government and ethics, 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 postgraduate programs at SHU involves a multistage project process that will cover vetting by module across a number of studies , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is frequently questioned is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer supposed." We look to see if there's a chink in what we already present and gauge whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those motivations ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent authority 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 abruptly, Greer told .
Candidates for the grad curriculum 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 point 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 evoked about improving community health ," supposed Greer. She estimated that the initial class will include 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty member should be underway by this descend .