1 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
No courses at Grinnell College Economics study a left-of-center subject.
Furthest-right subjects
ECN 384 · Seminar in the Economics of Education33
Economics
4 credits Education becomes increasingly important as the "information economy" replaces the old industrial economy. This course explores some questions that are global, others that are personal: is better education the solution to poverty?…
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.
Bureau of Disruption
Grinnell College · Economics