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Columbia University · English & Comparative Literature17% of Columbia University'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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
English & Comparative Literature
The Haitian Revolution (1791-1803), in which the enslaved in France’s richest Caribbean colony threw off their chains and defeated the European colonial powers, was a seismic event in modernity. As an “unthinkable” revolution that was…
English & Comparative Literature
In 1935, WEB Dubois wrote about abolition democracy: an idea based not only on breaking down unjust systems, but on building up new, antiracist social structures. Scholar activists like Angela Davis, Ruth Gilmore and Mariame Kaba have long…
English & Comparative Literature
This course will explore the historical category of Resistance Literature, its theory and practice, its transnational expansion, and its ongoing relevance today. Originally proposed by Palestinian author and political activist Ghassan…
English & Comparative Literature
Explores the cultivation of national and transnational performances as a significant force of National Socialism, at the same time as challenging the notion of "Nazi Theatre" as monolithic formation. The core of the course inquires into the…
English & Comparative Literature
This course explores fascism through an interdisciplinary, trans-historical lens. Beginning with Germany’s Third Reich, we will examine fascism’s history and foundations in social, political, religious, and scientific developments. We will…
English & Comparative Literature
Since the beginning of the movement that would become Christianity, Jews have occupied a unique – and uniquely fraught – position in the Christian imagination. Why did so few of the very Jews to whom Jesus preached accept him as their…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 17 | — | 300 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |
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