By now I have grown quite comfortable with the university colloquium (third time's a charm, right?). The first time I took the class it seemed to me that it consisted of a bunch disparate ideas about the environment thrown together so that FGCU could claim it was committed to teaching it's students about sustainable education. I now realize that that was an extremely cynical, and largely unfair critique. While it's true that the topics we covered during the semester were broad, I believe that it was to the classes benefit. There are a million different ways to live sustainably. There are a hundred-thousand different ways that we can change our communities for the better. There are no less than a hundred points of entrance into the climate change debate.
While I never wish to take a Gordon Rule writing course again, and I had to poke the back of my hand with a mechanical pencil in order to stay awake during some of those late-afternoon videos, I will admit that this course has great merit. Greater still is its potential to motivate students in the future to invest themselves in the world around them, or if not, then at least to pay attention to it.
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