University of Notre Dame · Ethnic & African American Studies
31.0% of University of Notre Dame'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%.
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University of Notre Dame: 31.0% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison
Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall
3%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
43%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
6%Far right0–8
35 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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
ILS 30419 · Frida Kahlo and Che Guevara: Icons, Myths, and Legacies92
Ethnic & African American Studies
This is a course on twentieth century Latin American history. It examines the region through the life, writings, global impact, mythical significance, and legacy of revolutionary icon Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967). While the discussions…
AFST 13184 · History University Seminar: USEM History: Slavery and Freedom in the United States88
Ethnic & African American Studies
An introduction to the seminar method of instruction that explores the major methodologies of the historical discipline and which accents the organization and expression of arguments suggested by readings in historical topics. Between the…
AFST 40401 · Black Arts and Black Power Revisited85
Ethnic & African American Studies
This interdisciplinary course examines the historiography of the Black Power and Black Arts movements of the sixties and seventies. The poet and theorist Larry Neal defined the Black Arts Movement as "the aesthetic and spiritual sister of…
This course is a survey-style introduction to the early modern Atlantic world, the global region brought together beginning in the fifteenth century by commercial interests, military conquest, and the African slave trade. It explores the…
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to major themes in the global history of slavery with a specific focus on the location of slavery in the making of the modern world bringing together histories from the Atlantic, Indian,…
When Columbus stepped ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he set in motion a process that led to the creation of wealthy Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas, the genocide of countless numbers of indigenous men and women, the…
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.
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University of Notre Dame · Ethnic & African American Studies
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.