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Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth College's course descriptions average 67.4 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Dartmouth College reads 0.2 points further right.
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
Experiment Engaging with the histories and present realities of colonial dispossession, racial violence and cisheteropatriarchy on campus and beyond, we will examine and craft visions of alternative futures grounded in prison abolition.…
Philosophy
An introduction to the thought of Karl Marx and themes from his work. Areas of focus may include Marx’s account of alienation and exploitation, his materialist theory of history, his critique of liberalism, his theory of ideology, his…
Women's & Gender Studies
in Southeast Europe This course is designed to develop students’ critical thinking skills on the topics of war, nationalism, sexual violence, oppression, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion. Using intersectionality and…
Ethnic & African American Studies
This course deals with the African heritage, origins of white racial attitudes toward blacks, the slave system in colonial and ante-bellum America, and free Black society in North America. Specific emphasis will be placed on the…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Memory and Slavery at Dartmouth Beyond noting that Wheelock owned slaves, little is known of Dartmouth's other historical connections, if any, to the institution of slavery. This research seminar investigates the college's economic…
Ethnic & African American Studies
in Jim Crow America Jim Crow segregation in the United States compelled many African American men and women to use their bodies— their hands, feet, and voices—to create sacred scenes, sounds, and spaces to articulate their existence in…
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 66.2 to 68.5; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 65.4% | 52 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 40.5% | 148 | view |
| Sociology | 29.0% | 62 | view |
| Anthropology | 18.8% | 96 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 18.1% | 215 | view |
| History | 15.1% | 146 | view |
| Religious Studies | 9.8% | 122 | view |
| Political Science | 8.6% | 162 | view |
| Art & Art History | 8.6% | 152 | view |
| Philosophy | 2.8% | 145 | view |
| Economics | 2.0% | 49 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 80 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth College | mean_bias_score | 67.4 | 66.2 – 68.5 | 1,429 | 241 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |