In addition to spending part of each Friday in sensory evaluation, these first-year honors students must complete a group project related to the taste tests. They also must read four chocolate-related books, fiction and nonfiction, and complete a writing requirement for the class. Through the University Honors Program, Kitto explained that her colloquium has a writing fellow, an upperclass honors student. When the writing fellow returns the edited paper and reviews the critique with the student, the student rewrites the paper, and then Kitto combines it with others from the class for a final information resource on chocolate. The course draws students from all majors, Kitto said.
Engineers can explore the mechanics of making and packaging chocolate.
Business majors discover how the big candy companies market different kinds of chocolate to various target audiences. Veterinary students can research why chocolate is toxic to some animals. Of the 20 students in my colloquium, eight are engineers, five are business majors and the rest are divided among a variety of majors. Pa. According to Kitto, the Oxford candy maker has four retail stores in New York City and one in the Middle East.