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 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 Harriette Lowery
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2023
- with William Messner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2022
- 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 Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2023
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
In collaboration with Pickering Creek Audubon Center, three (virtual) classes that focus on Eastern Shore songbirds that grace the Eastern Shore landscape. No birding experience needed.
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2024
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Got waterfowl? Want to see some loons and gannets? How about a warbler or two and maybe even an elusive rail? A “yes” to any or all of these questions qualifies you for this course, with no birding experience necessary.
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
Participate in class sessions and field trips to identify local birds while learning ecological concepts that both inform and challenge our working landscape past, present and future.
- with Katie Livie
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Explore the diverse story of Blue Crabs, the Bay’s staple seafood, and their complex adaptation.
- 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 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 James Pierson, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2023
- with Julie Crain
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2024
- with Lynn Randle
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Summer 2021
Learn about native plant solutions to common gardening questions, as well as the many reasons "going native" is so important to the well being of our Chesapeake Bay environment.
- 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 Mat Peters
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2024
- with Kristina Motley
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2023
- with Sharika Crawford, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
COURSE IS NOW OVER. RECORDING IS AVAILABLE. Learn what ended the worldwide Caribbean turtle fishery of a century ago and why this is a cautionary note for the sustainability of fishing the Chesapeake.
- with Mark Mulligan
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2023