This NCHC Civic Seminar explores the Chesapeake Bay’s environmental and social challenges. Over ten days, students will engage with local stakeholders and visit key sites to study issues like climate change, coastal resiliency, and the fate of key species. The seminar helps students develop solutions for complex civic issues in their own communities.

Honors Semester are offered regularly to invite honors students nationally into a learning experience away from their own campus to sites abroad and in the United States. Students earn transferable college credit as they combine field studies, research, internships, seminars, and a living-learning immersion that taps the resources of a Semester's location as it builds a community of inquiry.