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American University · Political Science

5.2% of American University's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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American University: 5.2% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
80%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
10 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

GOVT 425 · Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement65

Political Science

The twentieth-century African American civil rights movement is both wider and longer than is conventionally viewed and taught. This course examines how the jazz community advanced the cause of African American freedom by confronting racial…

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GOVT 304 · Living With a Disability63

Political Science

With one in four people in the United States, or approximately sixty-three million Americans, living with a physical or developmental disability, governmental and educational infrastructures are becoming overburdened providing services to…

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GOVT 440 · Minority Representation and Ethnic Conflict63

Political Science

Ethnic conflicts are the major barriers to peace and democracy around the world. This course grapples with how political institutions can be constructed to produce stable and successful democracies. It focuses on how minorities have gone…

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Furthest right

None. American University Political Science has 8 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 · Political Sciencebias_left_share5.2—153—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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