First Year and Pre-Major Program

CUSP Highlight : Chocolate Festival

Who : The event will be hosted by Dr. Kristy Liessle.
When : March 13, 2013 from 11am - 1pm
Where : North Creek Events Center

Do you enjoy chocolate? Join Kristy Leissle, Ph.D. in her DC II Chocolate: A Global Inquiry class for the 2nd Annual UW Bothell Chocolate Festival. Her students are now experts at all things chocolate, and are ready to share all they know about this complex and fascinating food. We'll be sampling single origin dark, milk, white and flavored chocolates this year. A chocolate for every palate!

The goal for the festival is not just for you to enjoy chocolate, but to learn from the experts. Near the entrance to the festival will be a basket containing slips of paper with interesting and oft-posed questions about chocolate that, after a quarter of study, all her students will be able to answer for you. Please take one (or more!) and pose the questions to any or all students as you sample chocolate at their tables.

Each student has prepared a poster, advertisement, and flavor profile for their chocolate, so please ask about those too!

About Us

CUSP is the home for first-year and pre-major students at UW Bothell. We are the first place to turn for all of your academic needs, from scheduling classes and meeting faculty to discussing your future career goals.

Our Mission

The CUSP mission is to support the successful transition to college of First Year and Pre-Major students and to provide the foundation on which they will continue scholarly and professional development.

CUSP Learning Goals

Inclusive Practices - Focuses on how best to deepen the richness of human experience- with its differences of race, gender, ability, religion, age, language, sexual orien-tation, and class.

Critical and Creative Inquiry - Joins reason and imagination to make, investigate, critique, and pursue meaning in the arts, humanities, and the social and natural sci-ences.

Ethics and Social Responsibility - Explores our connections with each other across cultures, languages, natural resources, and values.

Quantitative and Qualitative Literacies - Are complementary ways to understand problems, issues, and questions.

Communication - Is the process of written, oral, performative, and multimedia interaction that enables us to share ideas and practices.