History
Previously titled Socialist Techno-Utopias In the decades following the Russian Revolution, the Soviet state attempted to transform human society and the human species to bring about utopia. Soviet and other socialist scientists carried out…
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Boston College · History
14.8% of Boston College's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
0%Far left92–100
21%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
23%Center42–58
10%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
8%Far right0–8
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both HIST1722 and ENVS1737. How can we create just cities? In an urbanizing world, contemporary cities are characterized by the production and reproduction of…
History
This course explores Ireland's revolution, including the rise of Irish republicanism and the partition of the island amidst bloody sectarian and political violence. Among the issues examined are the paramilitarisation of political culture,…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Fulfills the US History requirement for Majors.Followed in spring semester by HIST2402.This course is an introduction to United States History from the pre-Columbian Era to the end of the Civil War. The principal text will be the first…
History
Fulfills the US History requirement for History Majors Racism is, unfortunately, as American as apple pie and baseball. This course explores the roots of racial hatred and the changes in American racism over time. In addition to studying…
History
No field in American history has been more dynamic and more debated than the history of slavery in the United States. This course covers a broad range of critical questions and historical debates about slavery in the United States,…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston College · History | bias_left_share | 14.8 | — | 122 | — |
| History | bias_left_share | 8.3 | 7.9 – 8.7 | 17,232 | — |
- 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.