First Year Seminar - Chocolate

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Southwestern University's First Year Seminar Program aims to introduce you (as a newcomer) to college while exposing you to what it means to live and learn in a liberal arts based academic environment. In general, an FYS develops your abilities in the following areas: reading, writing, critical thinking, research methods, informed discussion and creativity. In this section of FYS, you will read, think and write about the importance of chocolate in both a biological as well as societal context.

*Why title this seminar "Multi-chocolated???" *Nearly everyone loves at least some kind of chocolate and I see it as the perfect media to integrate into a FYS. The following are themes that we will explore in this course:

1) Chocolate is *multi-cultural;*
2) Chocolate comes in *multiple forms;*
3) The number of times the average person encounters chocolate has multiplied in recent years;*
4) Applications of chocolate are *multi-faceted; *
5) One can study chocolate using a *multi-disciplinary *approach.