In have responded to student require, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health platform with a dusk 2018 propel -- and planned superintendent Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm most aroused about it ," responded Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and director of the undergraduate planned chairman in effort 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 schools to do so ."
In addition to the field of rehearsal discipline or kinesiology, students haunting the "masters degree" in public health will be introduced to public health possibilities, program planning, parish health occurrence, concede writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health disposal and morals, according to Greer. The 48 -credit program can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such postgraduate programs at SHU implies a multistage overture process that includes vetting by module across a number of trains , not all related to state disciplines .
" The one question that is repeatedly requested is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer responded." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already render and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those demands ."
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 institutions of public health and public health curricula outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process shortly, Greer suggested .
Candidates for the alumnu 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 position 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 provoked about improving parish health ," alleged 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 drop .