1.1% of Tufts University'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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Tufts University: 1.1% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison
18 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.
Analysis of domestic political, economic, and social development of the Soviet Union and its successor states. Approximately one third of the course is devoted to an overview of political, economic, and social structures that defined Soviet…
The Black Internationalist tradition, and its impact on US policy toward Africa from 1850 through the present. The structures of American government, African diaspora politics, and strategies of foreign policy lobbying explain the diversity…
PS 0013 · Sophomore Seminar: Race & Class In American Politics68
Political Science
Race and class cleavages in the U.S. and their effect on our politics. Emphasis on how race has impeded a class-based politics in this country. Origins and decay of the Jim Crow South, American political attitudes toward race and class…
PS 0024 · Sophomore Seminar: The Politics Of South Asia25
Political Science
One-fifth of the world's population lives in South Asia, a region of the world of increasing change, strife, and importance. Topics examined: the legacy of colonial rule and the independence movements; the political and social structures of…
(Cross-listed as CVS 156) An interdisciplinary, social science approach to the study of American political conservatism. Drawing from philosophy, psychology, political science, and economics, study works of contemporary conservative…
PS 0130 · Seminar: African Political Economy 1/29/2024 15:11 PM Course Bulletin Page 636 of 120533
Political Science
Theories of political economy with a focus on political liberalization and economic change. Issues include political reform, economic development, gender and sex roles, agricultural policy, debt, poverty, structural adjustment, and emerging…
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.