88 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
LANT 2225 · Activist Anthropology: Toward Antiracism, Decolonization, and Anti-Oppression100
Anthropology
How can we use anthropology, both its tools and theories, to actively work towards a better world? In this class, we will collectively address this question in order to construct a framework of anthropology that explicitly aims to bring…
LANT 3085 · Anti-Blackness in Global Perspective100
Anthropology
This course examines anti-Blackness in global perspective. Drawing on the critical insights of Frantz Fanon, Steve Biko, and Sylvia Wynter, among others, this course examines foundational concepts of the ‘human’ and the racialized formation…
Throughout the world, migrants are engaging in political action and practices and relations of solidarity and care. These ‘affective solidarities’ are also infusing feminist theory with new forms of political praxis. What types of knowledge…
GANT 6306 · Immigration Politics & Policy: In Theory, in Practice, and in Resistance17
Anthropology
Over the past decade, the priorities of immigration policy around the world have shifted from governing the movement of people across borders toward defining a new political classes of non-citizens, with fewer recognized rights and often…
NANT 3545 · Entrepreneurship, Risk, and Culture: Anthropological Perspectives38
Anthropology
Entrepreneurship is a practice central to capitalism, with a prodigious potential for improving economic conditions in almost any society by directly benefiting certain individuals while promoting development in society as a whole through…
This course will take up a central question: to what extent is anthropology adequate to the task of inquiring into economic life? In response, we will first consider 1) the historical significance of liberalism for the theorization of the…
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.