It does make some sense, but the reasonable accommodation seems obvious to me--allow them to take a different course to fulfill the "realism drawing" requirement for graduation and eliminate realism drawing as a prerequisite for other classes they need to graduate. Or if it's one assignment out of x for the course, excuse them from the assignment and grade them on x-1 assignments.
The religious accomodations to life drawing in fine arts remind me of a woman who graduated a couple of years before I started undergrad.
She fought for a religious accomodations to use the Koran in its original Arabic for her comparative religions classes, because she in her personal faith considered reading the Koran in translation sacrilegious. The professor did not read/understand Arabic and resisted the accommodation because it would be more work to modify assignments just for her, and because it would make grading more difficult if she cited the original Arabic version of the text.
When I had that professor, they spoke of her as if she had asked for the most monumentally unfair thing ever.
How easy would it be to have two life drawing sessions, one with a nude subject and one with an underwear-wearing subject? Or even the same session with two models and a screen? A fine artist who is never going to render genitalia in their career doesn't need to learn that skill.
(Two sessions is more expensive. Paying another model is more expensive.) Something I read on a parenting subreddit that the algorithm served me up stuck with me--it is not necessarily for the reasonable accommodation to be the cheapest accommodation.
A different professor I had, with the benefit of tenure and access to the department's discretionary budget, had a straight up policy of:
"write your papers in the language you're most fluent in, let me know ahead of time what language I need a grader for, and I'll handle the rest form there."
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It does make some sense, but the reasonable accommodation seems obvious to me--allow them to take a different course to fulfill the "realism drawing" requirement for graduation and eliminate realism drawing as a prerequisite for other classes they need to graduate. Or if it's one assignment out of x for the course, excuse them from the assignment and grade them on x-1 assignments.
The religious accomodations to life drawing in fine arts remind me of a woman who graduated a couple of years before I started undergrad.
She fought for a religious accomodations to use the Koran in its original Arabic for her comparative religions classes, because she in her personal faith considered reading the Koran in translation sacrilegious. The professor did not read/understand Arabic and resisted the accommodation because it would be more work to modify assignments just for her, and because it would make grading more difficult if she cited the original Arabic version of the text.
When I had that professor, they spoke of her as if she had asked for the most monumentally unfair thing ever.
How easy would it be to have two life drawing sessions, one with a nude subject and one with an underwear-wearing subject? Or even the same session with two models and a screen? A fine artist who is never going to render genitalia in their career doesn't need to learn that skill.
(Two sessions is more expensive. Paying another model is more expensive.) Something I read on a parenting subreddit that the algorithm served me up stuck with me--it is not necessarily for the reasonable accommodation to be the cheapest accommodation.
A different professor I had, with the benefit of tenure and access to the department's discretionary budget, had a straight up policy of:
"write your papers in the language you're most fluent in, let me know ahead of time what language I need a grader for, and I'll handle the rest form there."