Incoming Reflection - What are your initial expectations of Colloquium, feelings? Consider the following: Briefly describe any experience you have with exploring wilderness areas here or in other regions. Describe your relationship with the natural world. Describe any anxieties or reservations you have about this class. What are your personal goals for this class? Describe how this class might be an important component to your education, major or life experiences.

As a student who attends Florida Gulf Coast University, I have to take the required course entitled University Colliquim. In this course, we will study the environment, and how as a campus we function within our ecosystem. As well, we also examine other ecosystems, and how they can effect peoples lives.

Some of the goals for this course include:

• to provide a "sense of place" and an understanding of the unique ecological features of the environment of which you are a part

• to assist in achieving the Florida Gulf Coast University learning goal of developing "an ecological perspective" and in teaching the related outcomes that the student will
  "...know the issues related to economic, social, and ecological sustainability, analyze and evaluate ecological issues locally and globally, participate in projects requiring awareness and/or analysis of ecological and environmental issues;"

• to provide experiences to assist in moving toward achieving the eight other FGCU learning goals and their related outcomes.
  to enable a working understanding of sustainability, of environmental education, and of ecological literacy.

As part of this course, we are required to keep an online journal documenting our activity in the class, and things we learned/found interesting.

The only experience that I have with exploring nature in the area is just wandering off aimlessly into the woods with friends and getting lost in nature. Growing up in Florida, all of this wildnerness seems very familiar to me and almost like home. The only Anxities that I have about this class is that I heard it is alot of work, which I am honestly not looking forward to. My personall goal for this class is to learn something, and take it with me on my life journey to make better of this world. I believe that this will help me in the future.