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Vassar College · English & Comparative Literature18.1% of Vassar 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.
English & Comparative Literature
1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 219 and AMST 219 ) "Queer of Color Critique" is a form of cultural criticism modeled on lessons learned from woman of color feminism, poststructuralism, and materialist and other forms of analysis. As Roderick…
English & Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as WFQS 218 ) Topic for 2024/25a: Feminist, Queer and Trans Theory: History and Practice. In this course, we trace the lineages connecting feminist theory, queer theory, and trans theory, and learn how…
English & Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as GNCS 225 ) What do we mean when we describe something as "American" or as "literature"? How are literary histories of America constructed? And why does literary history matter today? This course…
None. Vassar College English & Comparative Literature has 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vassar College · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 18.1 | — | 83 | — |
| English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 6.3 | 6.0 – 6.7 | 19,071 | — |