Political Science
An examination of the social, economic, and political roots of the Cuban revolution of 1959 and the changes brought about in Cuban politics and society as a result of the revolution. Usually Offered: fall. Prerequisite: GOVT-130 .
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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%.
0%35%
Where Political Science courses fall
3%Far left92–100
9%Left75–91
58%Center-left59–74
21%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
9%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Political Science
This course traces the major debates in feminist political theory and their roots in liberalism, communitarianism, Marxism, post-modernism, and other schools of thought and examines the ways in which feminist political theory can inform…
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…
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
This course traces the development of American conservative thought in the twentieth century. The course focuses on the various strands of conservatism and how they approach important public policy questions, while introducing students to…
Political Science
The West’s first and arguably greatest conservative thinker, Edmund Burke was an anti-philosophic philosopher and an influential statesman skeptical of what states can do. This course analyzes Burke’s political and moral writings in…
Political Science
The West’s first and arguably greatest conservative thinker, Edmund Burke was an anti-philosophic philosopher and an influential statesman skeptical of what states can do. This course analyzes Burke’s political and moral writings in…
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 · Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | — | 153 | — |
| Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | 4.8 – 5.6 | 12,053 | — |
- 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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