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Davidson College · English & Comparative Literature21.2% of Davidson 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
Instructor Vincent This seminar investigates the origins of the prison in America to better understand the ongoing crisis of mass incarceration in the United States. We will read the earliest writings of incarcerated people in England and…
English & Comparative Literature
Instructor Fox In the first two decades of the 21st century, human existence has been made more precarious by racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia; war and conflict; global warming; health inequities; and widening social and economic…
English & Comparative Literature
Instructor Fox Lushly enfleshed in America and want favorable representation? Fat chance. Indeed, not only is there social stigma, but pathologizing fat is central to the mission of pharmaceutical companies, the medical-industrial complex,…
None. Davidson College English & Comparative Literature has 33 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson College · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 21.2 | — | 99 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |