5.5% of Hamilton College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
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Hamilton College: 5.5% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison
29 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
GOVT 346 · Liberalism and the Left86
Political Science
Examination of the political thought of both progressive liberalism and the radical left, stressing the foundational debates. Explores left-liberalism, social democracy, democratic socialism, communism, left-anarchism, environmentalism,…
An interdisciplinary examination of the history and contemporary practice of feminist thought. Topics include the history of feminist thought in Western culture, the broadening and complication of that canon to include examinations of race,…
GOVT 305 · Native and Indigenous Political Thought83
Political Science
This course investigates various texts in Native and Indigenous political thought. Themes may include indigeneity, colonialism, sovereignty, recognition, refusal, and resistance. Readings will center on the works of non-Western thinkers.
What traditions of political thought inform conservatism today, and what ideas do these traditions offer to conservatives and their opponents going forward? Explores schools of conservative political thought such as traditionalism,…
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.