Bureau of DisruptionAll schools · Liberal arts college
Davidson CollegeDavidson College's course descriptions average 68.4 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Davidson College reads 0.8 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
Instructor Garcia-Rojas This course explores the relationship among Black radical aesthetics, policing, and abolition from a philosophical perspective. It enlists Black feminist, political, and social theories and philosophies to critically…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Instructor Staff This seminar is designed to explore the origins and transformations of the concepts of race and blackness on a global scale (beyond the U.S.) and across time (even before our modern era). More specifically, the course is…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Instructor Irele Frantz Fanon is considered one of the most influential postcolonial thinkers of the twentieth century. This course will serve as an introduction to the theorist, focusing on his Black Skin, White Masks and Wretched of the…
History
Instructors Guasco, Nguyen, Stremlau This course will introduce students to advanced concepts in historical thinking and selected topics in nineteenth-century US history. Students will explore secondary literature and primary sources…
History
Instructor L. Henry According to a 2018 survey, over half of millennials have never heard of Auschwitz, the Nazi's most famous death and labor camp system. However, even Auschwitz represents just one of the myriad experiences that we now…
History
Instructor Guasco African American experience from the colonial period through the Reconstruction era. Topics include the slave trade, the institution of slavery, free blacks, slave revolts, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and African…
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 67.1 to 69.7; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 61.5% | 26 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 58.2% | 55 | view |
| Sociology | 44.1% | 59 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 21.2% | 99 | view |
| History | 19.3% | 140 | view |
| Psychology | 15% | 60 | view |
| Art & Art History | 10.9% | 55 | view |
| Anthropology | 9.6% | 52 | view |
| Philosophy | 5.6% | 36 | view |
| Political Science | 4.6% | 109 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 43 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 84 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson College | mean_bias_score | 68.4 | 67.1 – 69.7 | 818 | 149 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |