9 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.
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.
Furthest-left subjects
PSY 200 · Research Design and Statistics: 167
Psychology
Instructor Eiler, Salter, Flaherty, Gadaire, Good This course will introduce students to scientific thinking, with a specific focus on how scientific understanding manifests in psychology, neuroscience, and interdisciplinary research across…
Instructor Salter The purpose of this course is to critically examine psychological concepts, theories, and methods from perspectives grounded in the "Black experience." We will examine psychological phenomena and issues that emerge in the…
PSY 353 · Advanced Seminar: Psychology of Prejudice67
Psychology
Instructor Good This course explores current psychological theory and research regarding stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. We will discuss stereotype formation and activation, current and past conceptualizations of prejudice,…
Instructor Salter This course is designed to facilitate an understanding of changes in the field of psychology over time. Students will consider the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which psychology developed and continues to…
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.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.