In have responded to student involve, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health program with a transgression 2018 open -- and curriculum chairman Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm excessively stimulated about it ," told Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and lead of the undergraduate planned chairman 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 institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of activity discipline or kinesiology, students engaging the "bachelors degree" in public health will be introduced to public health possibilities, program planning, society state increase, concession writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state organisation and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too open to part-time students .
Adding such grad programs at SHU involves a multistage project process that will cover vetting by module across a number of penalties , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is frequently invited is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer said." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already volunteer and gauge whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those needs ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' program 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 schools of public health and public health curricula outside institutions of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer suggested .
Candidates for the alumnu planned 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 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 committed to and agitated about improving parish state ," read 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-off .