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The CMDC<ref>http://www.dtc-wsuv.org/cmdc/</ref>program at WSUV is home to the Digital Technology and Culture degree, one of the five Signature Programs offered. The program emphasizes the power of innovation and integrates technology with education to create a diverse, rich-media experience for students. It also offers multiple courses and extra-curricular opportunities for students to experience the future of their innovations in an entrepreneurial setting. Under the direction of Dr. Dene Grigar <ref>http://www.nouspace.net/dene/Webpages/Home.html</ref> the program features the production of everything from mobile apps to interactive art exhibits. It directs students to innovate through creativity, critical thinking and real world problem solving. The students also have the invaluable experience of the Senior Capstone Course <ref>http://www.dtc-wsuv.org/cmdc/senior_seminar.html</ref> that provides a real world experience for students to jumpstart their professional thinking and careers.
=== Nouspace Gallery & Media Lounge ===
The CMDC Program is also home to the Nouspace Gallery& Media Lounge<ref>http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/nouspace/</ref>. Nouspace is a showcase for exemplary work of innovative students in the program. Gallery shows consist of student created pieces using digital media to solve problems or create cultural comments referencing the growing intersection of art, technology, and the humanities. Nouspace also offers the opportunity for students to develop entrepreneurial skills in curating as they manage and organize exhibits.
=== Creative Media Lab ===
The current entrepreneurial system offers students the opportunity to perceive the importance of entrepreneurship and realize the potential that it can have for them. The opportunities to advance beyond into applied and realized entrepreneurship are minimal. Senior seminars and capstone design classes give some design opportunity but prevent students from exposure to entrepreneurship till their senior year in higher education. It is through new student driven organizations that changes will begin to be made. Spring 2014 will see the first entrepreneurial collaborations between disciplines and the possibility of build and startup weekends. New student groups within the Nouspace gallery, under the direction of the CMDC program and the University Fellow will bring new show and gallery opportunities to STEM and art students with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. The future goals of WSUV will have a heavy focus on entrepreneurship and the new designation by the Department of Commerce of Vancouver as an Innovation Partnership Zone will only help to bring this focus to the greater community.
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== Related Links ==
[[Washington State University Vancouver Student Priorities]]
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