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American University · Religious Studies

12.5% of American University's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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American University: 12.5% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
3 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

RELG 240 · Global Religious Ethics78

Religious Studies

Oppressive systems tied to colonialism are often embedded in the study of religious ethics, where the dominant canon taught in most universities is composed of Western or Judeo-Christian ethics. This course confronts that injustice, reading…

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RELG 476 · Religion and Black Bodies of Resistance72

Religious Studies

This course explores religion as it is embodied in the styles, rhythms, and practices of people of African descent in the Americas. Students examine African American encounters with systematic attempts to deny their humanity, and the manner…

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RELG 676 · Religion and Black Bodies of Resistance72

Religious Studies

This course explores religion as it is embodied in the styles, rhythms, and practices of people of African descent in the Americas. Students examine African American encounters with systematic attempts to deny their humanity, and the manner…

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Furthest right

None. American University Religious Studies has 3 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 · Religious Studiesbias_left_share12.5—24—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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