37 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
SOCI 414 · CRITICAL RACE THEORY83
Sociology
This course will examine critical race theory. It will provide students an opportunity to evaluate what it is and is not, its origins and central tenets, and its impact today across multiple fields including sociology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 514.
This course will examine critical race theory. It will provide students an opportunity to evaluate what it is and is not, its origins and central tenets, and its impact today across multiple fields including sociology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 414.
An overview of the construction and reproduction of gender as a social category. Course will compare various conceptualizations of gender and discuss structural-, interactional-, and individual-level processes that reproduce gender…
None. Rice University Sociology has 37 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
Why this number, in plain words
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.