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No I need the credit
What a bizarre failure of a school.
The liability must be enormous. They went on record stating the professor's actions were  "undeniably Islamophobic" in trying to educate art history students about art history.
Indeed historic Islamic art by Islamic artists can be challenging but that's why it's important to understand it. It's not 'phobic to believe it's worthy of study. Theres so much value to learning of the fluidity of belief and how art is a window on the world over time. 
Now they'll finally understand backtracking by saying they've made a "misstep" is not enough when you've tried to suppress academic freedom within an academic institution 
Does anyone enrolled there think they're getting a decent education? 
They even failed the student, they naively thought they were protecting, since they're not preparing them for the real world where there isn't some overarching hand that can move the chess pieces of life around to ensure you always win. >

The job of educational institutions is to prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child. >

Did you get this from The Coddling of the American Mind by chance? >

Sure did! Great book. >


According to the lawsuit, López Prater’s course syllabus included a note that students would view images of religious figures, including the Prophet Muhammad. The syllabus also included an offer to work with students uncomfortable with viewing those images. She also warned the class immediately before showing the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

Seems like the student who made a fuss about it did it intentionally to get her in trouble. An institution of higher education firing a professor over a single complaint is ridiculous. This lawsuit seems like a no-brainer. >

Right? It appears the student was offended even at the thought of anyone seeing an image of Mohammed and chose to stay to get the professor in trouble. >

Even though the image thing is only relatively recent. >

Which ironically is the sort of thing you should expect to learn in an Art History class. Things like how religions aren't monoliths, and beliefs can and do change over time. >

I have a degree in art history and took a class on Islamic art. We absolutely looked at early depictions of Muhammad and how those changed over time.