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Haverford CollegeHaverford College's course descriptions average 67.7 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Haverford College reads 0.1 points further left.
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.
English & Comparative Literature
The 'archive,' as both an institutional and performance practice and a theoretical concept, has been one of the most studied sites in performance and literary studies. The hegemonic, patriarchal institution of the archive that constructs…
English & Comparative Literature
This course explores the role of poetry and other forms of creative expression in the history of prison abolition and related social justice movements. Focusing on incarcerated writers and artists who theorize life worlds in and beyond…
Political Science
This course is an introduction to current debates in radical feminism. Beginning with the psychanalytical, Marxist, and Black Radical feminists of the 1960's and 70's, the course outlines contemporary radical feminist positions on race,…
Ethnic & African American Studies
This course explores the history and historiography of South African apartheid from its inception in 1948 to its democratic overthrow in 1994. We will consider the interplay between complex definitions of race, gender, nation and difference…
Political Science
This semester the seminar will focus on the causes and manifestations of structural and political violence in the Americas. Topics include the rise of white supremacy in the United States, and escalating political repression, gang violence…
Political Science
This course explores the evolution of the jihadi movement, focusing on its ideological development throughout the twentieth century, and the structural changes it has gone through since the jihad to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan during the 1980s. Enrollment Limit: 30
Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.
50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.
Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 65.8 to 69.6; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 36.7% | 30 | view |
| Sociology | 33.3% | 21 | view |
| Political Science | 26.7% | 45 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 25% | 20 | view |
| History | 22.7% | 44 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 20.2% | 84 | view |
| Women's & Gender Studies | 15.4% | 13 | view |
| Philosophy | 5.6% | 36 | view |
| Art & Art History | 5.2% | 77 | view |
| Psychology | 4.5% | 44 | view |
| Religious Studies | 3.4% | 29 | view |
| Economics | 2.0% | 51 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haverford College | mean_bias_score | 67.7 | 65.8 – 69.6 | 494 | 76 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |