Sorry, "same accommodation challenge with regard to art degrees." Our art degree, like most, requires a "Life Drawing" class (or it did ten years ago when I co-led a panel on academic freedom that touched on a lot, and I do mean a LOT, of these same topics, and my hand hurts like a mofo, so not looking it up right now), so a religious restriction that prevents the drawing of nude models was, again, ten years ago, a no-go for visual/drawing art degrees.
Interestingly, the topic of "alternative assignments" at that time was not so much (or perhaps not just) restrictions based on "academic freedom," which was itself mostly about accommodating/overriding "religious objections" to progressive content (having to read a story in which gay people exist, for example, and yes, that's snarky, because yes, I absolutely got that comment on my lit evals). It moved on to triggers, which never got resolved to my satisfaction (where I was actually the odd person out saying, "look, I can at least tell them there's a graphic rape scene," although I have since kind of waffled on telling them how to skip it, because if that works on a rape scene in The Gunslinger, it works a lot less well on the gay sex scene of "Brokeback Mountain," and I have come to share my colleagues' somewhat-cynical-but-sadly-accurate concern that students are more likely to ask to be allowed to "skip" the latter than the former). It was on disability accommodations when I arrived and is still on them today.
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Interestingly, the topic of "alternative assignments" at that time was not so much (or perhaps not just) restrictions based on "academic freedom," which was itself mostly about accommodating/overriding "religious objections" to progressive content (having to read a story in which gay people exist, for example, and yes, that's snarky, because yes, I absolutely got that comment on my lit evals). It moved on to triggers, which never got resolved to my satisfaction (where I was actually the odd person out saying, "look, I can at least tell them there's a graphic rape scene," although I have since kind of waffled on telling them how to skip it, because if that works on a rape scene in The Gunslinger, it works a lot less well on the gay sex scene of "Brokeback Mountain," and I have come to share my colleagues' somewhat-cynical-but-sadly-accurate concern that students are more likely to ask to be allowed to "skip" the latter than the former). It was on disability accommodations when I arrived and is still on them today.
Christ, I'm wordy today. No pun intended.