In response to student require, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health curriculum with a drop-off 2018 open -- and planned director Anna Greer couldn't be more delighted .
" I'm most aroused about it ," articulated Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and conductor of the undergraduate program lead in rehearsal 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 class to do so ."
In addition to the field of usage discipline or kinesiology, students haunting the undergraduate degree in public health will be introduced to public health philosophies, program planning, community health blooming, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such alumnu curricula at SHU commits a multistage proposal process that will cover vetting by department across a number of self-restraints , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is frequently asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer added." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already offer and gauge whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at replenishing those motives ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned 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 academies of public health and public health curricula outside institutions of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer told .
Candidates for the postgraduate 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 score 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 elicited about improving parish health ," articulated Greer. She estimated that the initial class will be incorporated in 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty member should be underway by this descend .