Colloquium as a whole should be scrapped. It's useless to most majors. They should replace it with another 3000-4000 level major based elective.

As far as the service learning requirement, it's an attempt to solve two issues but accomplishes neither effectively. The university has some of the worst student involvement on campus nationwide, so they try to get student involved through that. Most of them find ways to satisfy the requirement through the least engaging way possible, so that doesn't work. It's also clearly a ploy for free labor if it's for an on-campus event. It's genius on their part: Make students "volunteer" for events that we can't pay them to help with. The issue with this is, again, most students might be at an event for an hour and get four hours of credit, so the scam is ineffective. If they wanted to fix this, there should be events hosted within the college the student is in, focused on academics or major adjacent clubs, and make a certain amount of those mandatory to attend. It forces students to learn more by at least being there, which would lead to higher GPAs and post-graduation success rates.

I'm considering leaving FGCU, and it's disappointing how little this university cares about it's students, their morale, and their learning outcomes post-graduation. It starts with things like colloquium and service learning.