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Fordham University · English & Comparative Literature10.5% of Fordham 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
Historians have described slavery as "America's original sin," a period from which time will never fully distance us. Current events bear this out. This course will focus on fiction about slavery and the debate over abolition during the…
English & Comparative Literature
For many years now, critical queer and trans scholars have traced the intersections between gender and sexual identity formations and the modern exercise of state power. In particular, this body of scholarship has excavated the complicities…
English & Comparative Literature
Using a rhetorical lens, this course explores the ontological and epistemological history of race, gender, sexuality, and other identity categories as they have been invented alongside capitalism. We will begin with overarching theories,…
English & Comparative Literature
In this course we will read four of Jane Austen’s major novels, several scholarly essays about the novels, and a few primary texts by other authors. Our work will be guided by two overarching goals. One is to survey some of Austen’s opus…
English & Comparative Literature
In the United States, slavery and daring attempts to escape it have become the subject of such popular works as "12 Years a Slave," "Underground," and "Harriet." We have heard less, however, about the “middle passage,” one of the most…
English & Comparative Literature
The Caribbean has been called everything from a crossroads to a crucible of modernity. What is the history of the Caribbean, and what is the Caribbean's place in the world? In this course, we will answer these questions by analyzing a wide…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fordham University · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 10.5 | — | 572 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |
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