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Duke · English & Comparative Literature1.7% of Duke'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.
English & Comparative Literature
The term 'pícara' or 'rogue outlaw' was designed to regulate and criminalize the bodies of women transgressing boundaries. This course uses the term to delve into the heroic histories of some of the the most prominent women voices across…
English & Comparative Literature
Topics included: psychoanalysis, Marxism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, theory of film and the image; theory of race, gender, sexuality, with a concentration on materials since 1950. Satisfies the criticism, theory, methodology (CTM) for English majors.
English & Comparative Literature
What makes a 'classic' of American literature? Why do a handful of texts endure while others have fallen by the wayside? By reading a variety of well-known texts from early American literature, we pose-and attempt to answer-these questions.…
None. Duke English & Comparative Literature has 11 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 1.7 | — | 120 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |