4.1% of Fordham University's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
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Fordham University: 4.1% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison
34 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.
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.
Furthest-left subjects
POSC 3550 · Decolonial Thought in Latin America96
Political Science
As a discipline and movement, “the decolonial” is an expansive terrain offering fertile ground for thinking through the social and political questions that haunt the 21st century. Adjacent to postcolonialism, decolonial political thought…
Through selected readings of major political theorists, this course will examine the ideas of the individual, the state, and society, from the 16th through the 19th century. The course will trace the development of such theories as…
A survey of recent and contemporary political thought, focusing on 19th- and 20th-century writers. Readings will include Lenin, Goldman, Bernstein, Nietzsche, Freud, Michels, Weber, deBeauvior, Sartre, Camus, and Irigaray. Four-credit…
What is the philosophical foundation of capitalism? What are the viable alternatives to capitalism? This course considers answers to these questions from the fields of economics, political theory, and humanistic management. Authors covered…
POSC 3219 · Constitutional Law and the Death Penality33
Political Science
The couse will examine the historical, philosophical, religious, and legal roots underlying the use of the death penalty by political systems. Part of the course will focus on contemporary U.S policy regarding the death penalty, relevant…
An examination of nationalism with particular attention to its effects on democratic principles and practices and its intersection with identity. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class…
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.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.