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Boston College · English & Comparative Literature14.8% of Boston College's English & Comparative Literature course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' English & Comparative Literature departments, it is 6.3%.
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
English & Comparative Literature
This course will introduce students to Marxism, both as a revolutionary practice and as a theory of modern culture. We will start out by spending a couple of weeks familiarizing ourselves with Marxs own writings, getting a handle on some of…
English & Comparative Literature
In this class, students will join a community of learners to read texts that visualize life beyond the bounds of the carceral system. The classs focus is two-fold: 1) to delve into the liberatory power of literature and 2) to engage in the…
English & Comparative Literature
Fulfills the graduate theory requirement. Starting in the nineteenth century in the United States, the great outdoors implicitly and explicitly became racialized. It was whites (but not all whites) who could turn to the outdoors as a source…
English & Comparative Literature
Formerly titled: Business Stories: Fortunes, Failures, and Frauds. In our economic, political, and personal lives, business stories exercise an extraordinary influence. This course examines the ways narratives shape commercial life, within…
English & Comparative Literature
Ireland, in recent decades, has experienced the highs and lows of globalization and monetary crisis. The Celtic Tiger economy was the "fastest growing ... in Europe" from 1995-2005. Three years later, the country entered recession,…
English & Comparative Literature
What is at stake in reimagining history through fiction? In this course, we consider the development of historical fiction from the eighteenth century to the present. We will investigate important settings for historical novels, likely…
Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.
Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston College · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 14.8 | — | 135 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |