Course Library
All Chesapeake Forum Library Courses are available FREE OF CHARGE. After clicking the “Course Details” button to open a course, you will find the YouTube links for the course session(s), and in newer courses, links to any handouts that might have been provided, at the bottom of the course description. Simply click the link(s) to get to the YouTube Video recording.
ENJOY!
- with Miranda Donnelly, MS, OTR
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Learn how to make the most of the aging process and the challenges of becoming a caregiver.
- with Bev Williams
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2023
- with Roger A. Mola
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2024
- with Dr. Raymond Vergne
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2024
- with Douglas Levin, Ph.D
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
A sonar mapped oyster reef reveals geologic history of the Chesapeake Bay from 20,000 years ago.
- with David Blight, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Professor David W. Blight’s virtual live lecture will draw past and present together by focusing on Frederick Douglass’ key legacies. You are welcome to join a live Q&A following the lecture.
- with Pamela Conrad, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
Join ‘Pan’ Conrad, noted Mars Mission astrobiologist and Episcopal priest and pastor, for a wide-ranging conversation that ties together geographic exploration on earth, space exploration and tourism, empire building and colonialism, science fiction and moral discernment.
- with Miles Yu, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2023
- with Steve Goldman, DDS
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
A virtual magic carpet ride through the past 230 years to see the facts, foibles, and fallacies of U.S. Presidential Elections.
- with Steve Goldman, DDS
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
Tour the past 500 years to see for yourself if “fake news” is a new phenomenon or just “business as usual.”
- with Ron Lesher
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
Who knew that Lewis Carroll ever contemplated or wrote a draft of the third book of the Alice Trilogy? We will explore some of the hidden meanings in Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Exeunt Alice.
- with Harriette Lowery
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2023
- with Bruce Purdy
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
A humorous and not so humorous “one man’s trek” through the most difficult places on the globe.
- with Bruce Purdy
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2023
- with William Messner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2022
- with Ron Lesher
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
If black holes emit no light and swallow all that surrounds them, how can we know anything about them? Come and explore what we know about black holes and how we know this.
- with Michele Dodge
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE! Join a wildlife photographer as she explores the birds of the Great Pacific Flyway, a major north-south migratory path over the Sacramento Valley of California. As a wildlife rescuer, she will also show what happens when wildlife clashes with humanity.
- with Phil Hesser, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Anna Ella Carroll and Harriet Tubman are asking for government pensions. You will decide.
- with Forest Hansen, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2022
- with Judith Cornette, M.Ed, SLP/CCC
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
Communication needs change as we age, whether naturally or due to neurological challenges. Ms. Cornette will address some of the challenges as well as ways to acquire lasting communication skills.