Community Health, M.S.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor Castrataro, Graduate Program Director,
(516) 463-4877, Nicholas.A.Castrataro@hofstra.edu

This program prepares students for careers in community/public health settings with emphasis on content and skills for planning and implementing health, wellness and disease prevention programs and services in culturally diverse settings. Courses in program planning, needs assessment, evaluation, information dissemination, health education, are included. Specialized health courses may be taught by adjunct faculty from the professional healthcare and health education community.

Admission Requirements

A completed application form.
An interview with the program director.
Transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended with a minimum 2.75 GPA.
A written personal statement describing the candidate’s goals in the teaching profession and in community health.
Two letters of reference that address the candidate’s potential to succeed in the teaching profession and in graduate studies.
Upon the recommendation of the program director, students with a GPA lower than 2.75 may be admitted by meeting one or more of the following criteria:
Complete 12 probationary graduate credits maintaining a minimum 3.0 GPA.
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) will be required of those students with lower than 2.50 GPA.

Students may transfer up to 9 credits of equivalent graduate courses from an approved institution taken within the last five years and completed with a grade of B or better (with the approval of the student’s faculty adviser only).

Competency Requirements

All students will be required to take one or more of this series of workshops during the first year of matriculation unless they meet the following criteria with the approval of the faculty adviser: A passing score on the proficiency exam as administered by the Computer Center. Previous related course work with a minimum grade of B.

Note: There is a fee associated with each of the workshops. Contact your program adviser.

SOE 201 - Workshop: Research Writing/Library Literacy Semester Hours: .5
(See footnote)
SOE 202A - Workshop: Wordprocessing Semester Hours: .2
SOE 202B - Workshop: Spreadsheets Semester Hours: .2
SOE 202C - Workshop: Internet/PowerPoint Semester Hours: .2

Program Requirements- Semester Hours 39

General Core Requirements: 12.5 s.h.

HADM 200 - U.S. Health Services System Semester Hours: 3
HADM 208 - Epidemiology and Health Services Research Semester Hours: 3
HED 201 - Health and Disease Issues Semester Hours: 3
MHAE 262 - Current Health Issues Semester Hours: 3

Major Core Requirements: 10.5 s.h.

MHAE 233 - Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Community Health Programs Semester Hours: 3
MHAE 257A - Public Health Issues Semester Hours: 1.5
RES 387 - Skills in Funding and Proposal Development: Government, Foundation and Corporate Semester Hours: 3

Core Electives: 12 s.h.

Selected from the following under advisement only.

HADM 232 - Health and Aging Semester Hours: 3
HED 210 - Mental Health Issues for Health Educators Semester Hours: 3
HED 211 - Human Sexuality and Family Life Education Semester Hours: 3
HED 212 - Substance Abuse and Misuse Semester Hours: 3
HED 213 - Nutrition/Fitness Semester Hours: 3
HED 222 - Implementing Health Education Curricula, Grades 6-12 Semester Hours: 3
HED 231 - Bereavement and Death Education Semester Hours: 1.5
HED 232 - Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention Semester Hours: 1.5
HED 234 - Stress Management Semester Hours: 1.5
MHAE 251 - Special Readings Seminar Semester Hours: 1-3 s.h.
MHAE 269 - Current Trends in Telecommunications and Microcomputer Applications for Health Professionals Semester Hours: 1.5
MHAE 280-9, A-Z - Workshops Semester Hours: 1-3 s.h ea

Required Field Experience: 3 s.h.

Note: three s.h. of electives may be substituted for field experience if the student can document equivalent related employment or prior courses (with written permission from department adviser only).

HADM 260 - Health Administration Internship Semester Hours: 3
HADM 260A - Supervised Internship in Health Services Semester Hours: 3

Final Requirement: 1 s.h.

Must be taken during the final semester of study with approval from the program adviser only.

Graduation Requirements

Successful completion of all course requirements for the degree including the capstone experience, with an overall GPA of 3.0 within a five-year period.

Footnote

All students will be required to take this workshop during the first year of matriculation unless they meet one of the following criteria with the approval of the faculty adviser: previous related coursework with a minimum grade of B or Published research

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