Church and State in Modern Latin America

HIS346W (39795); LAS366 (40845); RS368 (44315) Instructor: Dr. Matthew Butler
Semester: FALL 2013 Office: Garrison 3.414
Time: TTH 2:00-3:30 p.m. Office hours: TTH 3:30-4:30
Venue: NOA 1.102 Phone: 512-475-7972
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing Email: mbutler@austin.utexas.edu

Description

This course traces the history of the politics of religion, and of the religion of politics, in
modern Latin America. Throughout, special emphasis is placed on the history of the
Roman Catholic Church in the region. Within these basic parameters, the course is both
thematic and chronological in its organization.
Chronologically, the course covers begins with a survey of the colonial period
and then gives special attention to the national period running from independence (circa
1820) up to the Cuban Revolution (circa 1960), after which both Church and state entered
significantly new and distinctive phases (e.g. the emergence of bureaucratic-authoritarian
military dictatorships, and of Liberation Theology and Protestantization).
Thematically, special emphasis is placed on the challenges faced by the Church in
the aftermath of Latin American independence and on the causes of Church-state
tension under republican rule (Church wealth; allegations of clerical aloofness from the
nation; disputes over ecclesiastical patronage). We then consider the Church’s
multifaceted response to the rise of political liberalism in Latin America (the counter-
development of a modernized Catholic culture; the sponsorship of new devotions; the
promotion of “social” Catholicism and Catholic political parties; mobilization of the laity
and of women, especially; identification with supportive conservative regimes). We will
also consider the character of Latin American anticlericalism in this period; the
diplomatic and political relationships linking the Latin American republics (and their
national churches) with Rome; the social and educational influence of the clergy; and
popular religious ideas. As the course proceeds, we will begin to distinguish significant
national cases (Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Guatemala), allowing the
course to branch out in a more comparative sense as we proceed.
As the focus on questions of devotion as well as power implies, we will not just
be looking at the way in which the Church responded to changing political circumstances
after the demise of the colonial regime, but at how these were reflected in changing
religious practices. What did religion and politics mean to ordinary people?
During the course we will read as a group and discuss some relevant films.

1. Course Materials

Set texts
John Schwaller, The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America: from Conquest to
Revolution and Beyond (New York: New York University Press, 2011)
Willer Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927. London: Virago, 2006)
Austin Ivereigh (ed.) The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival (London: ILAS, 2000) (NB:
very often out of print: relevant chapters will be provided on Blackboard)
Paul Vanderwood, The Power of God against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in
Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998)
Edward Wright Rios, Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in
Oaxaca, 1887-1934 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009)

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Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory (1940. London: Penguin, 2003)

Schwaller is our up-to-date textbook and the indispensable survey. The Greene and
Cather books are short (classic and readable) historical novels from the period. Ivereigh
is an anthology of essays (excerpts supplied), while Vanderwood and Wright Ríos are
case studies of 19th and 20th-century. Mexico. We will not be reading all the texts
systematically, but discussing selections in conjunction with other essays and primary
sources. Again, we can be selective in using these so that the reading load is appropriate.
Though it is not prescribed as a set text since it is out of print and ancient, the
classic work by John Lloyd Mecham, Church and State in Latin America: A History of
Politico-Ecclesiastical Relations (1934. Second ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1966), is also indispensable as a basic work of country-by-country reference. It is
available in the Benson Collection or in electronic version through the UT library catalog
(simply find the item and follow the links to the “electronic resource” version).

Additional set readings (supplied on the Blackboard course page)

Austin Ivereigh, “The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival,” in Ivereigh, Politics of

Religion, pp. 1-22
David Brading, “Ultramontane Intransigence and the Mexican Reform: Clemente de
Jesús Munuía,” in Ivereigh, Politics of Religion, pp. 115-142
Pamela Voekel, “Liberal Religion. The Schism of 1861,” in Martin A. Nesvig (ed.),
Religious Cultures in Modern Mexico (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), pp.
78-105
Derek Williams, “The Making of Ecuador’s Pueblo Católico, 1861-1875,” in Political
Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950, ed. Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de
Losada (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), 207-29
Patricia Londoño Vega, “The Politics of Religion in a Modernising Society: Antioquia
(Colombia), 1850-1910,” in Ivereigh (ed.), Politics of Religion, pp. 141-65

Source documents (supplied on the Blackboard course page or in class)

Anon., “To Christ Crucified/A Cristo Crucificado,” 17C. sonnet

Frances Calderón de la Barca, Life in Mexico ([1843], reprinted, New York: E. P. Dutton
& Co., 1960), letters 14 and 18, pp. 128-141, 179-183
Francisco Bilbao, “Generational Warrior” (1844), in John Charles Chasteen and James
A. Wood (eds.), Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and
Interpretations (Lanham: SR Books, 2005), pp. 120-126
Domingo Sarmiento, Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism ([1851], Berkeley: University of
California, 2004), pp. 205-227
Anon., “The Socialist’s ABC,” in Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson (eds.),
The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke, 2002) pp. 411-417
Cecilio Valtierra, “The Last Mass,” archival document
Ernesto Cardenal, “Catholic Church and the Revolution”/“Pope John Paul II Speaks in
Cuba,” in Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, The Cuba
Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke, 2003), pp. 505-508, 635-636

Suggested supplementary bibliography

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Kristina Boylan, “Gendering the Faith and Altering the Nation. Mexican Catholic
Women’s Activism, 1917-1940,” in Olcott, Jocelyn et al, Sex in Revolution: Gender,
Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (Durham: Duke U. Press, 2006), 199-222
Michael A. Burdick, “Perón, Religion, and the Catholic Church,” in For God and the
Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995), 45-81
Michael Burleigh, Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the French
Revolution to the Great War (London: Harper Collins, 2005)
___. Sacred Causes. Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda
(London: Harper Collins, 2006)
Matthew Butler, “Liberalism, Anticlericalism, and Anti-religious Currents in the
Nineteenth-Century,” in Virginia Garrard-Burnett and Paul Freston (eds.), in
Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America (forthcoming)
___. ‘Religious Developments in Mexico, 1865–1945,’ in Stephen J. Stein (ed.), Cambridge
History of Religions in the Americas (3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2012), vol. 2, pp. 702-726
___. “Revolution and the Ritual Year: Religious Conflict and Innovation in
Cristero Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006): 465-90
___. Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico’s Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán,
1927-1929 (Oxford: OUP, 2004)
Owen Chadwick, A History of the Popes, 1830-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2003)
Christopher Clark, “The New Catholicism and the European Culture Wars,” in Clark,
Christopher, & Kaiser, Wolfram (eds). Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict
in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), 11-46
Michael P. Costeloe, Church and State in Independent Mexico: A Study of the
Patronage Debate, 1821-1857 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1978)
Margaret Crahan, “Catholicism in Cuba,” Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos 19 (1989): 3-24
___. “Cuba: religion and revolutionary institutionalization,” Journal of Latin
American Studies 17, no. 2 (1985): 319-340
___. The Church and revolution: Cuba and Nicaragua (La Trove: La Trove University Institute
of Latin American Studies, 1983)
David F. D’Amico, “Religious liberty in Argentina during the first Perón regime, 1943-
1955,” Church History 46, no. 4 (1977): 490-503
Helen Delpar, Red against Blue: The Liberal Party in Colombian Politics, 1863-1899
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1981)
Michael Dodson, “Priests and Peronism: Radical Clergy and Argentine Politics,” Latin
American Perspectives 1, no. 3 (1974): 58-72
Eamon Duffy, Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1997)
Enrique Dussel, “Catholic Church in Latin America since 1930,” in Bethell, Leslie (ed.),
Cambridge History of Latin America vol. VI (Cambridge: CUP, 1994), 547-82
Peter Henderson, Gabriel García Moreno and Conservative State Formation in
Nineteenth-Century Ecuador (Austin: UT Press, 2008)
Austin Ivereigh, “Catholicism and Peronism,” Catholicism and Politics in Argentina,
1810-1960 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995), 145-82
José Roberto Juárez, Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property
after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860-1911 (Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico, 2004)
John M. Kirk, “Between God and the Party: The Church in Revolutionary Cuba, 1969-
1985,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 11, no. 21 (1986):
93-109

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Jeffrey Klaiber, “Anticlericalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” in
Lee Penyak and Walter Petry (eds.), Religion and Society in Latin America: Interpretive
Essays from Conquest to Present (Maryknoll, 2009), 157-174
___. The Catholic Church in Peru, 1821-1985: A Social History
(Washington: Catholic University Press of America, 1992)
___. “The Catholic Lay Movement in Peru: 1867-1959,” The Americas 40,
no. 2 (1983): 149-70
___. “The Great Temple of the Law. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of
Anticlericalism,” in Jeffrey Klaiber, Religion and Revolution in Peru (Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), 7-23 (inc. notes 201-4)
___. “González Prada’s Anti-Catholic Knee. The Rise of Radical
Anticlericalism,” in Jeffrey Klaiber, Religion and Revolution in Peru (Notre Dame”
University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), 24-44 (inc. notes, 205-9)
Robert Knowlton, “Expropriation of Church Property in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
and Colombia: A Comparison,” The Americas 25, no. 4 (1969): 387-401
Arthur F. Liebscher, “Towards a Pious Republic: Argentine Social Catholicism in
Córdoba, 1895-1930,” A Journal of Church and State 30 (1988): 549-67
Patricia Londoño-Vega, Religion, Society, and Culture in Colombia: Antioquia and
Medellín 1850-1930 (Oxford: OUP, 2002)
John Lynch, “The Catholic Church in Latin America, 1830-1930,” in Bethell, Leslie
(ed.), Cambridge History of Latin America vol. IV (Cambridge: CUP, 1986), 527-95
Paul Christopher Manuel; Lawrence Reardon; Clyde Wilcox (eds.),The Catholic
Church and the Nation-state: Comparative Perspectives (Georgetown:
Georgetown University Press, 2006)
Tomás Eloy Martínez, Santa Evita (NY: Vintage, 1997)
Karen Mead, “Gender, Welfare, and the Catholic Church in Argentina: Conferencias
de San Vicente de Paúl, 1890-1916,” The Americas 58, no. 1 (2001): 91-119
Jesús Méndez, “Church-State Relations in Argentina in the Twentieth Century: A
Case Study of the Thirty-Second International Eucharistic Congress,” A
Journal of Church and State 27 (1985): 223-43
Jean Meyer, The Cristero Rebellion: The Mexican People between Church and State (Cambridge:
CUP, 1976, reprinted 2009)
Hubert Miller, “Liberal Modernization and Religious Corporate Property in Nineteenth-
Century Guatemala,” in Jackson, Robert H (ed.). Liberals, the Church, and
Indian Peasants: Corporate Lands and the Challenge of Reform in 19th-Century Spanish
America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997), 95-122
___. “Conservative and Liberal Concordats in Nineteenth-Century
Guatemala: Who Won?,” A Journal of Church and State 33 (1991):115-30
Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry (eds.), Religion and Society in Latin America: Interpretive
Essays from Conquest to Present (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2009)
Frederick B. Pike, “Heresy, Real and Alleged, in Peru: An Aspect of the Conservative -
Liberal Struggle, 1830-1870,” Hispanic American Historical Review 47 (1967): 50-74
Terry Rugeley, “A Culture of Conflict. Anticlericalism, Parish Problems, and
Alternative Beliefs,” in Terry Rugeley, Of Wonders and Wise Men. Religious Cultures
in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001), 169-202
Patience Schell, “An Honorable Avocation for Ladies: The Work of the Mexico City
Unión de Damas Católicas Mexicanas, 1912-1926,” Journal of Women’s History, 10,
no. 4 (1999): 78-103.
Hannah Stewart-Gambino, “The Chilean Church’s Rural Policy, 1925-52,” in The
Church and Politics in the Chilean Countryside (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), 63-89
Douglass Sullivan-González, Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation

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 Formation in Guatemala, 1821-1871 (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, 1998)
John C. Super, “Interpretations of Church and state in Cuba, 1959-1961,” Catholic
Historical Review 89, no. 3 (2003): 511-29
Richard Trexler, Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 2003)
Mary Watters, A History of the Church in Venezuela, 1810-1930 (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1933)
Derek Williams, “Assembling the ‘Empire of Morality’: State-Building Strategies in
Catholic Ecuador, 1861-1875,” Journal of Historical Sociology 14 (2001): 149-74
John Hoyt Williams, “Dictatorship and the Church: Doctor Francia in Paraguay,” A
Journal of Church and State 15, no. 3 (1973): 419-436.
Gertrude Yeager, “In the Absence of Priests: Young Women as Apostles to the
Poor, Chile, 1922-1932,” The Americas 64, no. 2 (2007): 207-42
___. “Female Apostolates and Modernization in Mid-Nineteenth-
Century Chile,” The Americas 55, no. 3 (1999): 425-58

There is a vast literature in Spanish also, which covers any imaginable aspect of Church-
state relations. A good starting point to explore this parallel literature is Jean Meyer,
Historia de los Cristianos en América Latina (Mexico City, 1989)

Films
We will make time to view a selection of films that have a direct bearing on the religious
question in Latin America, which may including some of the following: La Última Cena,
Nazarín, Canoa, El niño Fidencio: el taumaturgo de Espinazo, For Greater Glory

2. Assessment
There will be two forms of written assessment: six short written papers (roughly one a
fortnight) and a longer final paper. There is no final exam for this course. With prior
agreement, small amounts of extra credit may occasionally be available by reviewing non-
assigned readings by or attending relevant lectures outside class. The credit weightings
for specific assignments break down as follows:

(i) Reading papers: 6 x 1-2 pp. double-spaced papers @ 10% each (= 60%)

These papers will take the form of single-question short essays based on the weekly
readings. These papers are designed to ensure critical engagement with the readings and
stimulate classroom discussion. Completing the papers involves a commitment as much
from you (the writing) as from me (the grading). My commitment to you is that I will normally
undertake to return papers within 7 days, just as you will complete your assignment in 7 days.

See schedule for deadlines; prompts posted on Blackboard in preceding week

NB: you are allowed one freebie reading review: that is, you may elect to omit one
review with no penalty. In this case, I will simply duplicate the highest grade from the
other reviews that you complete across the semester. All I ask is that you notify me at or
before the relevant deadline (by email or in class) that you will be exercising this option,
so that I do not grade the paper as simply missing and give a grade of zero.

(ii) Final paper: 10 pp. double-spaced (40%). Due last class day

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There are two tracks for completing the final paper, one following a standard or default
essay question and the other based on a topic of your choice in agreement with me.
Students writing more individualized papers have previously covered topics such as the
cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico; the Church and its links to the Sandinista
revolution in Nicaragua; and the conservative Catholic state pioneered by Gabriel García
Moreno in nineteenth-century Ecuador. Substantial bibliographical research is required
for both papers. There is no preference or bias in favor of either the standard or
individual option, though the latter can often produce more interesting work.

Grading policies
(a) Weighting at a glance

Reading response papers (x 6 @ 10% ea. = 60%)

+
Final essay (x 1 = 40%)
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= 100%

(b) Grading scale

UT now has a plus/minus scale for both coursework and final grades, and which will be
used in this course. Letter grades will be given for individual assignments and are deemed
equivalent to the percentage bands given below. At the end of the semester, the
accumulated scores will be converted into a final % and final letter grade for the course
using the same scale. The grading scale used in this course will be as follows:

Percentage Grade
93-100% A
90-92% A-
87-89% B+
83-86% B
80-82% B-
77-79% C+
73-76% C
70-72% C-
67-69% D+
63-66% D
60-62% D-
Below 60% F

To do well in the assignments, you will need to keep pace with the readings; develop
your analytical skills (e.g. concerning different interpretations of Latin American history,
not just factual recall); develop your compositional skills (by presenting a reasoned,
opinionated case on paper); and improve your communication skills (by contributing to
discussions). By the end of the course, you will have an understanding of the theoretical
and historical problems associated with organized religion in Latin American states and
detailed knowledge of specific cases drawn selectively from across the region.

3. Course Format and Provisional Schedule

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Wk. Date Topic Activity/Readings by Class/Assignments

1. THU 29 Registration Syllabus

AUG

2. TUE 3 Church & State: Discussion (Schwaller, pp. 266-275)

SEP Useful Concepts

THU 5 Church & State: Lecture

SEP 19C-20C. Overview

Deadline: Paper 1 [Render unto Caesar]

3. TUE 10 Conquest and the Lecture/Discussion (Schwaller, pp. 33-95;

SEP Colonial Church Anon. “To Christ Crucified”)

THU 12 The Late Colonial Lecture/Discussion (Schwaller, pp. 96-116)

SEP Church: Bourbonism

4. TUE 17 La Última Cena Film (Schwaller, pp. 117-142)

SEP

THU 19 The Church at (and Discussion (Cather, Death Comes for the
SEP after) Independence Archbishop)

Deadline: Paper 2 [Post-Independence Church]

5. TUE 24 Church Patronage: Lecture

SEP Debates & Conflicts

THU 26 God in the Republic? Discussion (Calderón de la Barca, Life in

SEP Mexico, pp. 128-141, 179-183)

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6. TUE 1 Towards Separation: Discussion (Brading, “Ultramontane
OCT the Societas Perfectas Intransigence” in Ivereigh, Politics of Religion, pp.
115-142; Schwaller, pp. 143-165)

THU 3 Liberal Reforma in Lecture

OCT Mexico

Deadline: Paper 3 [Ultramontane Catholicism]

7. TUE 8 “Black Religion”: Lecture (Voekel, “Liberal Religion,” 78-105;

OCT Latin American Bilbao, “Generational Warrior”)
Anticlericalism

THU 10 Nazarín Film

OCT
Deadline: Paper 4 [Anticlericalism]

8.
TUE 15 Church Triumphant Discussion (Ivereigh, “The Politics of
OCT Religion,” pp. 1-22; Schwaller, pp. 181-188;
Sarmiento, Facundo)

THU 17 Carrera’s Guatemala, Lecture (Williams, “The Making of Ecuador’s

OCT Garcían Ecuador, & Pueblo Católico,” pp. 207-229; Londoño, “Politics
“Catholic” Colombia of Religion,” in Ivereigh (ed.), Politics of Religion,
pp. 141-65)

9. TUE 22 “Romanizing” the Discussion (Wright Ríos, Revolutions in Mexican

OCT American Church Catholicism, pp. 43-137)

THU 24 The Feminization of Discussion (Wright-Ríos, Revolutions in Mexican

OCT 19C. Catholicism Catholicism, pp. 206-69)

Assignment: Paper 5 [Romanization]

10. TUE 29 El niño Fidencio: el Film

OCT taumaturgo de Espinazo

THU 31 Fidencismo and Discussion (Schwaller, pp. 166-181)

OCT Popular Religion

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11. TUE 5 Mexican Millennium: Discussion (Vanderwood, Power of God, pp. 1-
NOV Revolt at Tomóchic 102)

THU 7 The Saint of Cabora Discussion (Vanderwood, Power of God, pp. 159-
NOV 277)

12. TUE 12 A Political Religion? Lecture (Anon., The Socialist’s ABC”;

NOV Mexico’s Revolución Schwaller, pp. 189-212)

THU 14 The cristero rebellion Lecture (Valtierra, “The Last Mass”; Greene,
NOV Power and the Glory)

Deadline: Paper 6 [Persecution in Mexico]

13. TUE 19 Peronismo and the Lecture (Schwaller, pp. 213-227)

NOV Church

THU 21 Saint Evita? Discussion (Perón, Razón de Mi Vida)

NOV

14. TUE 26 Consolidation Catch-Up/Final Paper Tutorial

NOV

THU 28 Thanksgiving Holiday No class

NOV

15. TUE 3 Cuba and the Church (Schwaller, pp. 227-265; Cardenal, “Catholic
DEC Church”

THU 5 Course close Final paper due and survey

DEC

4. Classroom Policies

Attendance. You are allowed up to three unexcused absences. Each additional unexcused
absence will carry a 5% penalty, applied to the total course grade. If you arrive late, it is
your responsibility at the end of class to ensure that you are marked as “present” for that
day. For medical absences to be excused, a doctor’s statement/evidence is required. If
you miss class, consult with me about catch-up procedures/materials for that day.

Late work. Please bring completed assignments to class on the due day. For work
submitted late, there will be a penalty of one letter grade per day, up to a maximum of three days
& including weekends. Work submitted more than three days late will be given a grade of
zero. I do not accept work by email attachment, except by prior agreement.

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Extensions will be granted only by agreement: they are exceptional, not guaranteed,
especially for the final paper.

Email. I will try to answer reasonable email queries within a couple of days. Please check
your email for course announcements.

Plagiarism. Plagiarism will result in an official report to the registrar and/or automatic
failure of the course (see UT policy below).

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Other syllabus information required by the Provost’s Office:

Policy on Scholastic Dishonesty drafted by Student Judicial Services (SJS)

Students who violate University rules on scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure
in the course and/or dismissal from the University. Since such dishonesty harms the individual, all students, and the integrity of the
University, policies on scholastic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. For further information please visit the Student Judicial Services
website: http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs.

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responsibility. Each member of the university is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and respect
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university and course-related information and announcements. You are responsible to keep the university informed about changes to
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later than five business days before an exam, you should remind me of any testing accommodations you will need. For more
information, visit http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/ssd/.

Religious Holidays
By UT Austin policy, you must notify me of your pending absence at least fourteen days prior to the date of observance of a religious
holy day. If you must miss a class, an examination, a work assignment, or a project in order to observe a religious holy day, I will give
you an opportunity to complete the missed work within a reasonable time after the absence.

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If you are worried about someone who is acting differently, you may use the Behavior Concerns Advice Line to discuss by phone
your concerns about another individual’s behavior. This service is provided through a partnership among the Office of the Dean of
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Emergency Evacuation Policy

Occupants of buildings on the UT Austin campus are required to evacuate and assemble outside when a fire alarm is activated or an
announcement is made. Please be aware of the following policies regarding evacuation:
o Familiarize yourself with all exit doors of the classroom and the building. Remember that the nearest exit door may not be
the one you used when you entered the building.
o If you require assistance to evacuate, inform me in writing during the first week of class.
o In the event of an evacuation, follow my instructions or those of class instructors.
o Do not re-enter a building unless you’re given instructions by the Austin Fire Department, the UT Austin Police
Department, or the Fire Prevention Services office.

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