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American University · Philosophy

3.6% of American University's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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American University: 3.6% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

22%Far left92–100

56%Left75–91

11%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

11%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

9 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.

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Framing Subject

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

PHIL 236 · Ecological Justice: Ethics in a More-Than-Human World92

Philosophy

This course is an in-depth study of ecological justice, that is, ethics in a more-than-human world. It tackles the question of how environmental justice intersects with social justice, especially along the axes of gender, race, sexuality,…

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PHIL 603 · Twentieth Century European Political Philosophy92

Philosophy

This course explores major movements of twentieth century continental political philosophy, including Frankfurt School Critical Theory, political phenomenology, Marxism and post-Marxism, feminism, and anti-colonial theory. These movements…

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PHIL 403 · Twentieth Century European Political Philosophy88

Philosophy

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Furthest-right subjects

PHIL 618 · Chinese Philosophy33

Philosophy

Through close readings of primary texts in three major ancient Chinese philosophical traditions, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, this course explores Chinese understandings of human nature, language, transcendentality, politics, and…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
American University · Philosophy	bias_left_share	3.6	—	55	—
Philosophy	bias_left_share	2.7	2.4 – 3.1	7,780	—

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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