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American University · Anthropology

26.9% of American University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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American University: 26.9% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
14%Left75–91
86%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
14 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

ANTH 623 · Militarization and Health78

Anthropology

Explores intersections of militarization, technological innovation, civil unrest and health through a survey if international conflicts. Analyzes the ways that profit-based, technology-driven processes of militarization effect and shape…

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ANTH 635 · Race, Gender and Social Justice76

Anthropology

Topics vary by section. This seminar explores the disjunction between biological myths of race and gender and their social construction as credible institutions; the historical, economic, and political roots of inequalities; the…

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ANTH 210 · Race and Racism73

Anthropology

This course traces the development of the race concept, beginning with the emergence of “pre-racial” categories and continuing into the present period of “post-racialism.” It examines the invention and development of race as an idea over…

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Furthest right

None. American University Anthropology has 14 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
American University · Anthropologybias_left_share26.9—52—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
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.

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