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== Strategy 01: Encouraging and Improving I&E Culture Within STEM & Humanities Fields ==

=== ~~'''~~<~~span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;~~ font~~-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Innovations Concentration''' ===~~ ~~Program Pitch: The Innovations Concentration is a combination of currently available design thinking and entrepreneurship courses that will provide hands-on education in innovation among students, provide students with entrepreneurial internships, and will go a long way towards strengthening the I&E culture on campus. There are two tracks to choose from: Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Design Thinking & Innovation. The concentration targets around 10-15 people from each class year, who will apply to join the concentration. After the selection process, students will have to take 5 classes related to the concentration as well as complete two learning experiences. Classes for the concentration will be pulled from the school’s current curriculum, and more courses could be added if there is a large amount of interest from students. The concentration’s template is listed below: Innovations Concentration Template:<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>A gateway course (could be partial credit)<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>~~Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track: Introduction to Innovation~~Transdiciplinary Action</~~li>~~<li>Design Thinking & Innovation Track: Introduction to Design Thinking</li>~~</ol></li><li>A group of courses in the curriculum which students choose 4 or 5 from a variety of departments: Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Studies, Interdepartmental Courses or other related departments</li>~~<li>1 or 2 practical learning experience (internship, independent study, service learning, etc.)</li><li>A capstone experience</li>~~</ol> In order to make our concentration a reality, we will need to first connect with faculty members interested in being a part of the advisory committee and discuss the potential of the concentration on campus. We will also collect information on faculty interest in the program. While we are gaging our faculty interest in the innovations concentration, we will also research student interest through advertisements, mini-workshops, and surveys. This will help us shape our concentration curriculum, and we will then submit the proposal with demonstrated student interest to the Committee of Academic Priorities for approval. Finally, we will reach out to alumnae for necessary funding and take steps to advertise and generate student awareness, with special focus on incoming and current first year students. Once we complete these steps, we believe that we will be well on our way to completing our concentration.

Many students from the Picker Engineering Department do not feel that they have a place in the I&E culture on Smith campus and that it was directed more towards business and humanities students. On the contrary, students from the humanities fields felt that the I&E culture was more for engineering and other STEM students.

To make students from multiple fields feel more inclusive in I&E culture, a workshop that teaches students how to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences to create innovative change on campus and beyond.

=== Maker Market ===

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