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The New School · English & Comparative Literature11.7% of The New School's English & Comparative Literature course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' English & Comparative Literature departments, it is 6.3%.
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.
English & Comparative Literature
Staged in the context of global economic insecurity, a planet gripped by the ravages of war and climate change, ever-increasing gaps in wealth, as well as rampant fundamentalism (East and West), this seminar will re-consider the…
English & Comparative Literature
W.E.B. DuBois predicted nearly a hundred years ago that "the problem of the 20th century [would be] the problem of the color line." His statement would be no less true as a historical analysis of American race relations during slavery in…
English & Comparative Literature
This course explores visions and revisions of revolution in Latin American literature from the 1950s to the late 20th century. Responding to the social and economic inequality prevalent in the region, Latin American writers have grappled…
English & Comparative Literature
This course studies some of the key novels by Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003), the most influential Spanish-language writer of the last decades. Bolaño’s novels and stories deal with many of the key political and social problems that plague…
English & Comparative Literature
Since the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in 1996, the question of forgiveness has become central to human rights discourse. In this course, we consider global political catastrophes and their consequences through…
English & Comparative Literature
This course examines texts of "American literature" from 1850 to 1945. We will consider writerly questions about the writing process, revision, voice, publishing, and form, and, at the same time, social and intellectual contexts, including…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New School · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 11.7 | — | 556 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |