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Williams College · English & Comparative Literature16.4% of Williams College's English & Comparative Literature course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' English & Comparative Literature departments, it is 6.3%.
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.
English & Comparative Literature
Cross-listings: COMP 299 Primary Cross-listing Reading political essays, critical theory, historiography, and literary works, in this course we will ask what thinking through the different senses of "occupation" can teach us about…
English & Comparative Literature
This course offers a study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose in a prophetic strain, with a particular (though not exclusive) attention to writing by women, from Aemilia Lanyer to Anna Trapnell to Anne Bradstreet. How did these writers…
English & Comparative Literature
Many people these days have views about the politics of pop culture. Audiences show up at superhero movies already asking questions about how Marvel has opted to represent this or that group. Fans don't need to be told that hip-hop in the…
None. Williams College English & Comparative Literature has 32 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams College · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 16.4 | — | 128 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |