ACCOMMODATION OF RELIGIOUS CREED


In compliance with Education code, Section 92640 (a), it is the
official policy of the University of California at Berkeley to permit
any student to undergo a test or examination, without penalty, at a
time when that activity would not violate the student's religious
creed, unless administering the examination at an alternate time would
impose an undue hardship which could not reasonably have been avoided.
Requests to accommodate a student's religious creed by scheduling
tests or examinations at altenative times should be submitted directly
to the faculty member responsible for administering the examination.
Reasonable common sense, judgment and the pursuit of mutual goodwill
should result in the positive resolution of scheduling conflicts.  The
regular campus appeals process applies if a mutually satisfactory
arrangement cannot be achieved.

This statement is the Campus' policy for accommodation of students who
miss calsses because of their religious commitment.  Below are the
dates of prominent religious holidays this academic year:

Judaism: Rosh Hashanah, September 6-7; Yom Kippur, September 15;
Sukkot, September 20-21; Shemini Atzeret, September 27; Simchat Torah,
September 28; Pesach, April 15-16.  (Jewish holidays and festivals
begin at sunset on the day preceding the listed date.)

Islam: Milad Al-nabi, August 26; Ramadan, February 1-March 3; 'Id
Al-fitr, March 3.  (Dates for Islamic holidays are approximations,
since months in the Islamic calendar do not begin until a visual
sighting of the new moon.)

Western Christianity:  Ash Wednesday, March 1; Good Friday, April 14.

Orthodox Christianity:  Lent Begins, March 6; Great Thursday, April 20; 
Holy Friday, April 21.

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Joyce McDougal 642-0253
Assistant to the Chair, EECS                        
joycem@eecs.berkeley.edu