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Williams College · Religious Studies25% of Williams College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.
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.
Religious Studies
Cross-listings: WGSS 225 / ANTH 258 / ASIA 258 Secondary 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…
Religious Studies
Cross-listings: GBST 105 Secondary Cross-listing This course's goal is to show how the racialization of Islam and Muslims has been constitutive to the latter's imagination. It looks at how difference works and has worked, how identities and…
Religious Studies
Cross-listings: GBST 243 Secondary Cross-listing The racialization of Islam and Muslims has been constitutive to how they have been imagined in Europe and elsewhere. This course looks at how difference works and has worked, how identities…
Religious Studies
Cross-listings: JWST 249 Primary Cross-listing In this course students will investigate intellectual traditions, political movements, and cultural objects that construct Jews, Jewishness, or Judaism as a negative principle. Where is Judaism…
Religious Studies
Cross-listings: HIST 302 / ARAB 243 / ASIA 243 / WGSS 243 Primary Cross-listing From fear of the Shari'a to its implementation in so called "Islamic countries," Islamic law is perhaps best associated with draconian punishments and the…
Religious Studies
Cross-listings: CHIN 215 / ASIA 215 Secondary Cross-listing How should people treat each other? What constitutes human nature and does it tend towards good or evil? How should we organize society, by focusing on laws and regulations, or on…
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 · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 25 | — | 64 | — |
| Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 4.6 | 4.1 – 5.1 | 7,282 | — |