Using a Hybrid Instructional Model for Co-Teaching an Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program

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This presentation discusses an inter-disciplinary program (History and Anthropology and Geography) focused on landscapes and heritage as interrelated outcomes of both preservation and modernization across space and over time. It was taught as a hybrid program that included a ten-day trip to France followed by ten days of online learning. Both faculty members have considerable in-country living experience, fluent language skills, and local familial ties, all of which facilitated trip planning and execution. The During the trip, all field lectures were co-taught and all students completed the same activities, readings, and assignments; after the trip, student assignments differentiated based on the course(s) in which they were enrolled. Co-teaching promoted group cohesion and underscored the interdisciplinary approach to studying landscapes and heritage that melded geography and history, while the hybrid model allowed for course specificity and lowered student cost, which allowed us to recruit a more diverse cohort.