12 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
ANTH 258 · Buddhism, Social Change, & Reproductive Justice in the Anthropocene (DPE)92
Anthropology
Cross-listings: REL 258 / WGSS 225 / ASIA 258 Primary Cross-listing This course considers how three women profoundly shaped the Buddha's life and legacy in terms of social change & reproductive justice. Our central characters are Maya--the…
In 2020, tens of thousands of farmers parked their tractors on major highways leading into India's national capital of Delhi, erected a city of tents and camped out until--sixteen months later--the legislation they were protesting was…
None. Williams College Anthropology has 11 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
Why this number, in plain words
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.