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Vassar College · Political Science32.4% of Vassar College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
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.
Political Science
Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as STS 284 ) Drawing from decolonial ecologies, queer ecofeminisms, and other critical, ecosophical perspectives, this theory course engages the politics of ecology and technology insofar as these…
Political Science
1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 361 and INTL 361 ) This seminar works through the essential contours of CLR James' The Black Jacobins, which offers a powerful transnational vision of revolutionary change by reconsidering the global "Age of…
Political Science
1 unit(s) The capitalism that Karl Marx critically analyzed continues to rule the earth and its population. However, dramatic shifts in production, finance, technology, politics, culture, indeed in the planetary environment itself, have…
Political Science
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) An examination of tensions and adjustments between democratic ideals and the structures and practices of political and economic power in the United States. Topic for 2024/25a: Democracy and Power: 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.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vassar College · Political Science | bias_left_share | 32.4 | — | 74 | — |
| Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | 4.8 – 5.6 | 12,053 | — |