March 21, 2008

In This Course, the Main Dish Is Chocolate

By PAULA WASLEY

"Multi-Chocolated: An Aesthetic, Historical, and Scientific Journey Into the Wonders of Chocolate,"

Southwestern University

In Romi L. Burks's class, learning is sweet. And has a high cocoa content.

The assistant professor of biology at Southwestern University, in Georgetown, Tex., recently led a first-year seminar that reduced several fields of study, including history, art, anthropology, economics, biology, and chemistry, to their most