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Barnard College · Ethnic & African American Studies

24.5% of Barnard 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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Barnard College: 24.5% 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
8%Left75–91
92%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
12 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

AFRS BC3160 · Fanon's Psychology of the Oppressed75

Ethnic & African American Studies

Frantz Fanon's ideas have been influential for decades among theorists, practitioners, and activists alike. This seminar is focused on understanding Fanon's particular perspective on the psychology of the oppressed and its relevance for…

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AFRS BC3121 · Black Women in America73

Ethnic & African American Studies

BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Prerequisites: Students must attend first day of class and admission will be decided then. Priority will be given to CCIS students (Africana Studies, American…

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AFRS BC3519 · Race Before Race: Premodern Constructions of Social73

Ethnic & African American Studies

Difference. 4 points. This course expands the reach of traditional analyses of race and ethnicity by demonstrating the key role of premodernity (Classical, Medieval and Early Modern eras) in developing modes of race thinking that shape the…

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Furthest right

None. Barnard College Ethnic & African American Studies has 12 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
Barnard College · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.5—49—
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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