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Grinnell College · English & Comparative Literature7.1% of Grinnell 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
4 credits (Fall) An introduction to postcolonial literatures and theory from the Caribbean, Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific. For current offerings review the variable topic course listing below or use the course search to filter by…
English & Comparative Literature
4 credits (Spring) American Gothic: from a City on a Hill to the Sunken Place. In this course, we explore the personifications and demonizations that haunt America's clearings, those spaces and places in which genocidal violence and slave…
English & Comparative Literature
4 credits (Spring) "Slavery and its Afterlives." In her book Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007), Saidiya Hartman introduces the idea of slavery and its afterlives: If slavery persists as an issue in the…
None. Grinnell College English & Comparative Literature has 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grinnell College · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 7.1 | — | 70 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |