{"title":"Core beliefs/content accommodation policies and teaching practice","authors":"Sarah Steimel","doi":"10.1080/21689725.2018.1507833","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After nearly five years of litigation and public debate, the University of Utah now follows a Content Accommodations policy that outlines how students may ask for university curriculum to be altered based on their sincerely held beliefs. This essay is written about experiences teaching at another public university in Utah (Weber State), which has a similar Core Beliefs policy written in the aftermath of the University of Utah lawsuit. Teaching under a core beliefs policy has resulted in at least three notable influences on my own teaching practices: tensions between planning and spontaneity, vagaries surrounding reasonable accommodation, and pre-curation (or self-censorship) strategies.","PeriodicalId":37756,"journal":{"name":"First Amendment Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21689725.2018.1507833","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"First Amendment Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21689725.2018.1507833","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT After nearly five years of litigation and public debate, the University of Utah now follows a Content Accommodations policy that outlines how students may ask for university curriculum to be altered based on their sincerely held beliefs. This essay is written about experiences teaching at another public university in Utah (Weber State), which has a similar Core Beliefs policy written in the aftermath of the University of Utah lawsuit. Teaching under a core beliefs policy has resulted in at least three notable influences on my own teaching practices: tensions between planning and spontaneity, vagaries surrounding reasonable accommodation, and pre-curation (or self-censorship) strategies.
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First Amendment Studies publishes original scholarship on all aspects of free speech and embraces the full range of critical, historical, empirical, and descriptive methodologies. First Amendment Studies welcomes scholarship addressing areas including but not limited to: • doctrinal analysis of international and national free speech law and legislation • rhetorical analysis of cases and judicial rhetoric • theoretical and cultural issues related to free speech • the role of free speech in a wide variety of contexts (e.g., organizations, popular culture, traditional and new media).