In response to student necessitate, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is supplementing a master of public health planned with a twilight 2018 propel -- and curriculum conductor Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm particularly excited about it ," remarked Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and director of the undergraduate planned administrator in exercise discipline." We have a growing number of students who are interested in coming a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of practise discipline or kinesiology, students following the "masters degree" in public health will be introduced to public health speculations, program planning, society state blooming, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state administration and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit platform can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is likewise open to part-time students .
Adding such grad curricula at SHU implies a multistage proposition process that includes vetting by faculty across a number of subjects , not all related to state sciences .
" The one question that is repeatedly asked is,' What is the need for a program ?'" Greer spoke." We look to see if there's a gap in what we already volunteer and gauge whether enough parties are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those hungers ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit class of public health and public health curricula outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer pronounced .
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 gradation 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 stimulated about improving parish state ," spoke 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 transgression .