12.2% of Vassar College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.
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Vassar College: 12.2% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison
10 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.
Furthest-left subjects
RELI 330 · Religion, Critical Theory and Politics85
Religious Studies
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Advanced study in selected aspects of religion and contemporary philosophical and political theory. May be taken more than once for credit when content changes. Topic for 2024/25a: Bosch's Garden of Earthly…
RELI 245 · Making Waves: Topics in Feminist Activism83
Religious Studies
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as WFQS 245 ) Topic for 2024/25a: Feminism, Religion, and Spirituality . Feminism and religion are ordinarily understood to be at odds with one another. Religion is often coded as patriarchal and…
1 unit(s) How might the experience of imprisonment have influenced the development of Christian ideas about the body, salvation, and justice? Does the contemporary crisis of America's "prison-industrial complex" demand new attention to this…
Semester Offered: Spring 1 1 unit(s) (Same as JWST 242 ) An exploration of the historical trajectory from religious to racial Jew-hatred through the study of religious, historical, political and sociological sources as well as art,…
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.