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Grinnell College · Political Science7.4% of Grinnell College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
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.
Political Science
4 credits (Spring) In this course, students will engage with a diverse literature on the experiences of those in various marginalized communities in the United States, including civil rights violations, systemic oppression, the complexities…
Political Science
4 credits (Fall) In this course, we consider the extent to which American political institutions perpetuate racial inequality through unequal representation, disparate civil rights protections, and unequal access to resources. We will also…
Political Science
4 credits (Spring) This course will familiarize students with the international human rights regime and will analyze a series of case studies to illustrate the challenges to the realization of human rights and the choices for human rights…
Political Science
4 credits (Fall or Spring) This course investigates the relationship between Islam and a variety of political outcomes, such as regime type, political violence, inequality, social tolerance, and political organization. Questions we explore…
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 · Political Science | bias_left_share | 7.4 | — | 27 | — |
| Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | 4.8 – 5.6 | 12,053 | — |