until this thread i was unaware that the prohibition against drawing Mohamed was not absolute across all of Islamic history and that there are historical images of him drawn by Muslims, and i took a class in college that discussed islamic art! so i can see how showing this image could have educational value for the students. considering that this was covered in the syllabus and ample warnings were given beforehand i don't think the professor did anything wrong. maybe a talking to or something at the very most but losing her livelihood over this is ridiculous.
They're a Business Management major, Psychology minor. If American university subject credits are anything like Australian universities, you aren't doing an art history subject as an elective to get a major and minor in those two. Your electives will be geared to getting the enough of the right credits for those majors/minors.
no, in most US colleges you have to take a certain number of electives that are not related to your major at all. as i said above i took an art history class and i was getting a science degree. since she is a senior i bet she took the class for an easy A in her last year and either saw an opportunity for 15 minutes of fame early on or just didn't show up to class until this day in particular or something.
no, in most US colleges you have to take a certain number of electives that are not related to your major at all.
Then wouldn't those elective subjects she would be taking be those that contribute to her minor? At least if you'd logically strive to do those, right?
saw an opportunity for 15 minutes of fame early on
No, they're entirely unrelated to both. It's a vestigial part of a "liberal arts" education which stresses exposure to a variety of fields, even those that you would never consider otherwise and have no teleological purpose towards your primary course of studies. The minor would have carefully defined course selections, of which Art history probably is not among them.
not necessarily. i don't know how it works at that school but at mine we had to get a certain number of credits in broad topics like "cultural literacy," "social sciences," "science and engineering" etc no matter what your major or minors were.
i appreciated it but i would have appreciated it more if college was free lol. exposing students to topics outside their main interest can keep them from getting too laser focused on one thing (see the tech nerds that don't know or care at all about ethics or really anything outside of silicon valley) and can show them things that become lifelong interests or may help them decide what they want to study if they go in undecided. i learned a lot in my general elective classes. i learned about the basics of marxism in a film studies class for example.
Then wouldn’t those elective subjects she would be taking be those that contribute to her minor? At least if you’d logically strive to do those, right?
If possible then you would, but you have to take a minimum number of classes from a variety of subjects so you likely will have to take a class in something that contributes to neither major or minor
For example a student studying English and Psychology will still have to take calculus maybe
TBF while I did not know it either, it certainly makes sense. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find denominations of Islam that find it acceptable even today, one of the most fascinating things about religion is how people will have such varying and contradictory ideas under the same umbrella.
yeah i wasn't shocked to learn this but it was new information.
one of the most fascinating things about religion is how people will have such varying and contradictory ideas under the same umbrella.
growing up catholic this has always been really interesting to me, that people within the church can have such wildly different ideas about fundamental topics like the afterlife or the nature of divinity while still being catholic and part of that structure. bound to happen when you have people thinking about the same topic for thousands of years i suppose
until this thread i was unaware that the prohibition against drawing Mohamed was not absolute across all of Islamic history and that there are historical images of him drawn by Muslims, and i took a class in college that discussed islamic art! so i can see how showing this image could have educational value for the students. considering that this was covered in the syllabus and ample warnings were given beforehand i don't think the professor did anything wrong. maybe a talking to or something at the very most but losing her livelihood over this is ridiculous.
How this as well. The student that complained was a business student.
:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
Actually further to add.
They're a Business Management major, Psychology minor. If American university subject credits are anything like Australian universities, you aren't doing an art history subject as an elective to get a major and minor in those two. Your electives will be geared to getting the enough of the right credits for those majors/minors.
no, in most US colleges you have to take a certain number of electives that are not related to your major at all. as i said above i took an art history class and i was getting a science degree. since she is a senior i bet she took the class for an easy A in her last year and either saw an opportunity for 15 minutes of fame early on or just didn't show up to class until this day in particular or something.
Then wouldn't those elective subjects she would be taking be those that contribute to her minor? At least if you'd logically strive to do those, right?
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No, they're entirely unrelated to both. It's a vestigial part of a "liberal arts" education which stresses exposure to a variety of fields, even those that you would never consider otherwise and have no teleological purpose towards your primary course of studies. The minor would have carefully defined course selections, of which Art history probably is not among them.
That's just an elective.
not necessarily. i don't know how it works at that school but at mine we had to get a certain number of credits in broad topics like "cultural literacy," "social sciences," "science and engineering" etc no matter what your major or minors were.
Seems US universities are weird.
i appreciated it but i would have appreciated it more if college was free lol. exposing students to topics outside their main interest can keep them from getting too laser focused on one thing (see the tech nerds that don't know or care at all about ethics or really anything outside of silicon valley) and can show them things that become lifelong interests or may help them decide what they want to study if they go in undecided. i learned a lot in my general elective classes. i learned about the basics of marxism in a film studies class for example.
If possible then you would, but you have to take a minimum number of classes from a variety of subjects so you likely will have to take a class in something that contributes to neither major or minor
For example a student studying English and Psychology will still have to take calculus maybe
TBF while I did not know it either, it certainly makes sense. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find denominations of Islam that find it acceptable even today, one of the most fascinating things about religion is how people will have such varying and contradictory ideas under the same umbrella.
yeah i wasn't shocked to learn this but it was new information.
growing up catholic this has always been really interesting to me, that people within the church can have such wildly different ideas about fundamental topics like the afterlife or the nature of divinity while still being catholic and part of that structure. bound to happen when you have people thinking about the same topic for thousands of years i suppose