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56% of American University's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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American University: 56% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

6%Far left92–100

61%Left75–91

33%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

18 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

WGSS 385 · Mental Health, Madness, and Neuroqueerness92

Women's & Gender Studies

Ideas about mental health, illness, and difference including therapy, self care, and mindfulness; autism, anxiety, and depression; ADHD, BPD, ODC, and PTSD; ASMR, medication, and substance use surround us every day. This course traces the…

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WGSS 319 · Imagined Bodies: Historicizing Race and Gender88

Women's & Gender Studies

This course studies the early modern body as a site where ideologies of property, gender, race, and class operate to (re)organize society in the anglophone Atlantic world. By reading critical theory, novels, and other primary source…

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WGSS 220 · History of African American Women83

Women's & Gender Studies

From Mumbet, the first Black women to petition for and win her freedom in a court of law, to Septima Clark, a civil rights activist, Black women have worked tirelessly to build America while dismantling systems of oppression. Although…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. American University Women's & Gender Studies has 18 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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 · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	56	—	25	—
Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	34.5	33.0 – 36.0	3,812	—

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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