In have responded to student necessitate, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is including a master of public health curriculum with a twilight 2018 launch -- and program administrator Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm terribly agitated about it ," replied Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and chairman of the undergraduate planned chairman in usage 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 academies to do so ."
In addition to the field of exercising science or kinesiology, students haunting the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health philosophies, program planning, community state growing, grant writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health administration and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit planned can be completed in two years by full-time students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such grad programs at SHU implies a multistage proposal process that includes vetting by department across a number of trains , not all related to health disciplines .
" The one question that is repeatedly questioned is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer added." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already present and gauge whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling 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 enterprise recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit academies of public health and public health curricula outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer told .
Candidates for the graduate program 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 grade 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 is fully committed to and stimulated about improving parish health ," replied 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 .