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Dartmouth College · English & Comparative Literature18.1% of Dartmouth 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
Disorders This course is an introduction to postcolonial theory through an exploration of the writings of Frantz Fanon, a Martiniquan psychiatrist and anticolonial thinker, who wrote extensively on the political and psychical impact of…
English & Comparative Literature
Queer Texts What makes an Asian/American “bad” and what makes a text “queer”? How does one shed light and offer insight on the other? How might the “bad” and the “queer” name the refusal and failure to assimilate and align oneself with…
English & Comparative Literature
This course charts one genealogy of postcolonial theory as it developed in the Anglo-American academy in the 1980s. Drawing on the two internationalist traditions of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, Marxism and Psychoanalysis,…
English & Comparative Literature
Literatures of Modernity There is a significant period of modernization in US culture from about 1850-1920—a decade before the Civil War to the aftermath of World War I, encompassing Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the devastating…
English & Comparative Literature
How do people become fascists? How do they rise to power? Why did people support fascism? We will focus initially on the original model for fascist dictatorships, that is Italian fascism, but we will also have in-class presentations by…
English & Comparative Literature
Empire The nineteenth century saw an explosion in the diversity and commercial potential of popular fiction. Detective fiction, science fiction, and the Gothic novel are a few of the genres that came into their own during this period,…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth College · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 18.1 | — | 215 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |