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Grinnell College · Philosophy5.7% of Grinnell College's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.
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.
Philosophy
4 credits (Fall) This course engages closely three works by thinker, psychiatrist, and activist Frantz Fanon ( Black Skins, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism , and The Wretched of the Earth ). The course will focus on developing skills for…
Philosophy
4 credits (Spring) This survey course approaches significant critical contributions in the history of European modern colonialism starting in 1492. Traditions studied in the course include decolonial Marxisms, postcolonial and decolonial…
Philosophy
4 credits (Spring) Cross-listed as: GWS 243 . This course will examine harms done to people in their capacity as knowers such as silencing, gas-lighting, epistemologies of ignorance and other forms of epistemic oppression. We will study…
None. Grinnell College Philosophy has 8 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 · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 5.7 | — | 35 | — |
| Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.7 | 2.4 – 3.1 | 7,780 | — |