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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

9%Far left92–100

41%Left75–91

45%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

5%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

22 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

AFRS BC3160 · Fanon's Psychology of the Oppressed100

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 GU4000 · HARLEM AND MOSCOW100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Prerequisites: NA The Russian Revolution of 1917 is widely acknowledged as a watershed moment in the global struggle for worker's rights, but it also played a considerable role in the fights against racism and colonialism (Lenin considered…

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AFRS BC2115 · BLACK FEMINIST PORTAL: TRANSFORMATIVE TEXTS.90

Ethnic & African American Studies

4.00 points. In the Spring of 2021, Black Feminist Portal will invite students engage a multi-generational literary and activist archive of survival and change. Using the emerging technology of the digital oracle, the course empowers…

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Furthest-right subjects

AFRS BC2010 · Colonialism in Africa17

Ethnic & African American Studies

Not offered during 2023-2024 academic year. Prerequisites: None This course will prepare students to examine diplomatic interactions involving African and European polities during the eighteenth and nineteenth century and the role that…

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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
Barnard College · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.5	—	49	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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