Biodiversity & Threats Cluster, 2024-2027 Proposed course: Ecological Diversity and Indigenous Perspectives: Biodiversity, Threats, and Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Every year, University Honors introduces into its curriculum four new themes of contemporary and enduring significance. These themes are addressed through “clusters” of courses offered over a period of two academic years. Each course in a cluster engages the theme from a different disciplinary perspective. Each cluster features a Lead Fellow, who sets the cluster theme and teaches an I-series lecture course; an early-career Collegiate Fellow, who teaches across the University Honors curriculum; and one or two Affiliate Fellows, who offer small seminars (1-2 sections per year) taught from a complementary disciplinary perspective.