Greetings! This is my first journal entry, so bare with me. I'm going to try and focus this first entry on my initial thoughts of the Colloquium corse, and I will hopefully wrap up this blog with my final entry being a reflection of the class.
All start out with what I thought of before the class started. My friends that had taken it in the past said it was a pain in the butt. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to learn, but I was excited for the field trips, as I LOVED taking the Biology of SWFL class a few semesters earlier.
Fast forward to the first class meeting. We got introduced to Dr. Douglas Morris. He was extremely passionate about the course which only got more excited for the rest of the semester. As class when on, I started to learn more about what "University Colloquium" actually meant, and what I was going to learn. For starters, I learned definition of 'colloquium', which I had never previously known, or thought to look up. More of less it means "an informal meeting with discussion".
Dr. Morris stressed to us that the class was an OPEN discussion, and we were ENCOURAGED to challenge things if we didn't necessarily believe them. I LOVE THIS CLASS!
On important note that Dr. Morris mentioned the first day of class, that has since proven useful, is that it is important to be familiar with relevant terms. Since I had only taken Bio of SWFL a couple of semesters earlier, I think Im pretty well off with relevant terms, and I already have plans to include such terms in future entries.
Stay tuned for my next journal entry where I discuss our first field trip to the FGCU Food Forest!
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