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Middlebury College · Ethnic & African American Studies72% of Middlebury College's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.
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.
Ethnic & African American Studies
We will think with and learn from Black writers of the Lusophone world across historical periods including enslavement, post-abolition, colonialism, and post-independence, as well as across Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Through writers…
Ethnic & African American Studies
In this course we will investigate physical structures encountered daily. Buildings, parks, and infrastructure constitute this built environment, reflecting their societies. But what could abolitionist architecture look like, or how might…
Ethnic & African American Studies
This course considers the issues, epistemologies, and political investments central to Black Studies as a field. We will explore chronologically, thematically, and with an interdisciplinary lens the social forces and ideas that have shaped…
Ethnic & African American Studies
In this course we will study how the "American North," constituted by New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, became a place of enslavement. Although often treated as a cradle of freedom, we will explore how the region's…
Ethnic & African American Studies
In this course we will examine 20th century American portrayals of chattel slavery through creative works and situate them in their historical contexts. Working primarily with fiction (Oxherding Tale, Kindred, The Underground Railroad),…
Ethnic & African American Studies
In this course we will explore some of the social worlds of South Africans amid the country's recent decades of turbulent and dramatic change. We will look at how different groups within the nation's diverse population have understood and…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlebury College · Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 72 | — | 25 | — |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 24.7 | 23.7 – 25.6 | 7,955 | — |
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