In response to student challenge, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health planned with a dusk 2018 launching -- and planned director Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm exceedingly evoked about it ," read Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and superintendent of the undergraduate curriculum superintendent in employ discipline." 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 use science or kinesiology, students seeking the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health possibilities, program planning, society health proliferation, award writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state disposal and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is likewise is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such alumnu programs at SHU commits a multistage overture process that includes vetting by department across a number of punishes , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is frequently questioned is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer enunciated." We look to see if there's a chink in what we already furnish and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those hungers ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' platform now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent enterprise recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit class of public health and public health curricula outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer articulated .
Candidates for the graduate 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 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 agitated about improving community state ," announced 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 transgression .