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Williams CollegeWilliams College's course descriptions average 69.3 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Williams College reads 1.7 points further left.
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Ethnic & African American Studies
Cross-listings: WGSS 402 / AMST 402 Secondary Cross-listing This seminar provides an overview of queer, black and women of color feminist, decolonial, and critical ethnic studies critiques of orthodox Marxism. Beginning with core texts from…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Cross-listings: WGSS 268 / AMST 268 / THEA 268 Primary Cross-listing For millennia, Black theater traditions have functioned as tools of ritual: in the names of witnessing, protection, and alchemical change. In this course, we will study…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Cross-listings: PSCI 361 Secondary Cross-listing This seminar will introduce students to the study of Black Political Thought as a set of critical normative and diagnostic gestures that help theorize the Black experience. By thrusting…
Art & Art History
Cross-listings: Secondary Cross-listing This course examines the complex and multifarious relations between art and fascism in interwar Europe, focusing on the cultural politics and the use of art in fascist movements and regimes,…
Art & Art History
Cross-listings: Primary Cross-listing This course examines the complex and multifarious relations between art and fascism in interwar Europe, focusing on the cultural politics and the use of art in fascist movements and regimes,…
History
Domestic Terrorism: From the Klan, through the Oklahoma City Bombing, to January 6 On January 6, 2021, we witnessed numerous acts of domestic terrorism - the effort to advance political and ideological ends through violent means. Some of…
Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.
50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.
Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 68.1 to 70.5; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 62.2% | 90 | view |
| Women's & Gender Studies | 59.7% | 72 | view |
| Sociology | 50% | 30 | view |
| Anthropology | 40.7% | 27 | view |
| History | 27% | 100 | view |
| Political Science | 25.3% | 87 | view |
| Religious Studies | 25% | 64 | view |
| Art & Art History | 16.8% | 161 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 16.4% | 128 | view |
| Economics | 10.1% | 99 | view |
| Philosophy | 9.4% | 53 | view |
| Psychology | 7.1% | 42 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams College | mean_bias_score | 69.3 | 68.1 – 70.5 | 953 | 260 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |