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Amherst College · Ethnic & African American Studies

50% of Amherst College's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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Amherst College: 50% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
28%Left75–91
72%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 framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

BLST 309 · Island Bodies and Bodily Autonomy83

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Offered as BLST 309[CLA/D/US], AMST 309 and SWAG 311) This course explores Black women's health and activism through an Africa diasporic lens that bridges intellectual work, grassroots action, and community-based learning. Grounded in…

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BLST 304 · Black Women's Stories of HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Justice80

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Offered as BLST 304 [US, D], SWAG 304 and AMST 304) This c ourse will introduce students to community-engaged research through the exploration of Black women's experiences of HIV/AIDS, reproductive injustice, and community organizing,…

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BLST 410 · Black Feminist Health Science Studies & the African Diaspora77

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Offered as BLST 410 [D], AMST 313, SWAG 409) This research tutorial will explore a diverse archive of contemporary and historical texts that foregrounds Black feminist health science studies (BFHSS) which focuses on a social justice…

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Furthest right

None. Amherst College Ethnic & African American Studies has 18 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
Amherst College · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share50—36—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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