Course Library
All Chesapeake Forum Library Courses are now available FREE OF CHARGE. Registration is required to access the course recording links. Your Registration Confirmation from Chesapeake Forum will have the YouTube links for the course session(s). If you want to be on our mailing list for the Course Offering mailer that goes out prior to each semester, be sure to include your full mailing address when registering.
- 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 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 Payne Kilbourn
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
Although Congress has yet to enact legislation to address ‘Climate Change,’ the U.S. Government has pursued and funded various initiatives for the problem of a rapidly changing climate.
- with Bruce Jones
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
Compare Talbot County with other Maryland counties to see the differences in education, rates of crime, housing availability, etc.
- with Bob DeGour
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
COURSE IS NOW OVER. RECORDING IS AVAILABLE. Join a discussion based on excerpts from the films “Stand and Deliver” and “The Ultimate Gift” to explore whether we are setting appropriate expectations for our nation’s next generations.
- with Margaret Andersen, Ph.D.
- & Constance Morris Hope, PCC
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
What does ‘systemic racism’ really mean? Is there a difference between ‘equality’ and ‘equity’? Join our program presenters and hear a panel of Talbot County community leaders discuss what’s happening in the County.
- with Lynn Randle serving as Moderator
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
The community leaders who will be participating in the Round Table Panel that is the final discussion of the Series "Conversations on Race: An American Dilemma" will be: Deborah Short, Program Director of BAAM, Nancy Andrew Director of the Talbot Family Network, and Capt. Anthony Smith, Chief of the St. Michaels Police Department. The discussion will be moderated by Chesapeake Forum Board President, Lynn Randle.
- with Rich Harrison
- & Bob DeGour
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Discuss four of the eight important global topics in the 2021 Great Decisions Briefing Book (included). Look for Part II in the Fall 2021 semester offerings.
- with Rich Harrison
- & Bob DeGour
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
Part 2 of this popular geo-political discussion group will continue with four more important global topics from the 2021 Great Decisions Briefing Book (available for an additional $10).
- with Lawrence Rudner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
(Recording Now Available) Recent cyber-attacks by nation states are causing disruptive damage to their targets. Examples are presented and discussed in terms of their approach, magnitude, and perceived motivations. Historical perspectives are addressed.
- with Hans Kuschnerus
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
It is said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. Are we ignoring obvious parallels from the past? Discussions will focus on present United States attitudes towards ‘political enemies.’
- with Claudia Dziobek, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
We will discuss the overall architecture and origins of the global economy as well as current economic analysis and policy recommendations using resources from the International Monetary Fund.
- with Sammi Ocher
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Learn what keystone species are and why they are so important to their ecosystems.
- with Lawrence Rudner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
An interactive discussion of policies surrounding implementations of AI in America and abroad.
- with Lynn Randle
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
Why is America so divided? Where are we going? Where will we end up? How are we, as educated consumers of the news, to discern the truth?
- with Ray Vergne, MD
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
An overview of Neo-fascism in six European countries will bring us to the XXI century.
- with Raymond Vergne, MD
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
This course will identify the many faces of fascism in different countries while exploring the roots and origins of fascism and its relationship to religion and economics.
- with Phil Hesser, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
COURSE IS NOW OVER, BUT THE RECORDING IS STILL AVAILABLE! The Maryland Parks Service describes the landscape of Harriet Tubman’s early years as “virtually unaltered.” Join Phil, co-author of “The Old Home Is Not There,” on a sweep through Dorchester as he looks for continuity and change.