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Brown University · English & Comparative Literature7.1% of Brown University'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.
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English & Comparative Literature
How have dreams of freedom been written in the 20th and 21st centuries? This course explores writing on unequal relations, relations of exploitation and duress, under the contemporary global and racial order. We will consider how writers…
English & Comparative Literature
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro are among the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, thanks to their roles in the Cuban Revolution and in anti-imperialist struggles across the globe. They are also among the most divisive, eliciting…
English & Comparative Literature
Inspired by the movie Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako) in which capitalism is put on trial, this seminar asks: How can we draw from the study of and opposition to colonialism the law that one should enact against it? In the name of what…
English & Comparative Literature
How do novels make readers experience such traumatic historical events as war, slavery, genocide, the internment, and civil conflict? What kind of political or ethical perspective on such events do literary narratives encourage? How do…
English & Comparative Literature
Although the term "terrorism" was coined in the 18th century, and although its contemporary resonance has reached an unprecedented pitch, the truly terrible century was arguably the 20th. This course introduces 20th century literature in…
English & Comparative Literature
Traces the relationship between the African American literary tradition and slavery from the antebellum slave narrative to the flowering of historical novels about slavery at the end of the twentieth century. Positions these texts within…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown University · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 7.1 | — | 967 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |