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Swarthmore College · English & Comparative Literature17.5% of Swarthmore College'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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
English & Comparative Literature
Cross-listed as BLST 061 How did Black literary production emerge to resist the institution and ideology of slavery in the United States? While this course will focus largely on antebellum slave narratives- powerful acts of…
English & Comparative Literature
In this course, we will analyze how reparations become embraced by human rights over the course of the twentieth century as a mechanism for redressing human wrongs. We will situate reparations as they emerge in national and international…
English & Comparative Literature
This course focuses on the evolution of Marx's-and Marxists'-writings on global questions of empire, colonialism, and non-European societies. We will engage Marx's key materialist reading of history and his foundational categories of…
English & Comparative Literature
(Cross-listed as GMST 054 , FMST 054 ) This writing intensive course is an introduction to German Cinema from its inception in the 1890s until the present. It includes an examination of early exhibition forms, expressionist and avant garde…
English & Comparative Literature
(Cross-listed as JPNS 083 ) What was the Japanese experience of the World War II and the Allied Occupation? We will examine literary works, films, and graphic materials (photographs, prints, advertisements, etc.), together with oral…
English & Comparative Literature
(Cross-listed as RUSS 053 ) Hailed as the "end of history" and "the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century," the fall of the Soviet Union forced Russia to reconcile a past that had long been suppressed with a present reality full…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swarthmore College · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 17.5 | — | 275 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |
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