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Bowdoin College · Ethnic & African American Studies

36.4% of Bowdoin 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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Bowdoin College: 36.4% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

12%Far left92–100
43%Left75–91
32%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
2%Far right0–8
102 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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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

AFRS 2350 · (b, DPI) Race, Land, and Settler (Racial) Capitalism: Ongoing Topics in (Dis)/(Re)Possession100

Ethnic & African American Studies

An introduction to ongoing topics in colonialism, racial thinking, environmental studies, global, and Caribbean studies. Examines how race, gender, and class operate under racial capitalism and settler colonialism. Readings will center on…

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LACL 2860 · (b, DPI) Race, Land, and Settler (Racial) Capitalism: Ongoing Topics in (Dis)/(Re)Possession100

Ethnic & African American Studies

An introduction to ongoing topics in colonialism, racial thinking, environmental studies, global, and Caribbean studies. Examines how race, gender, and class operate under racial capitalism and settler colonialism. Readings will center on…

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LACL 3517 · (b) Rebel Ecology: Black and Native Struggles for Land and Life Against Extraction100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Considers Dr. Guess's (2021) concept and theory of a "rebel ecology '' by asking, more broadly, what other socioecological models exist? Weaves together a study of differing, yet often converging or synergistic traditions of Black/Womanist…

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Furthest-right subjects

AFRS 2366 · (c, DPI, IP) Apartheid's Voices: South African History, 1948 to 19940

Ethnic & African American Studies

The study of apartheid in South Africa, the system of racial and ethnic segregation that began in 1948 and ended with the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994. Explores the many different facets of apartheid: how and why it emerged; its…

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LACL 2401 · (c, IP) Warriors, Missionaries, and Pirates: Colonial Latin America (1491-1700)5

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course introduces students to the history of Latin America from the pre-Conquest period until the consolidation of a colonial system administered by a European elite at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The course follows three…

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AFRS 1320 · (c, DPI) Racial and Ethnic Conflict in U.S. Cities12

Ethnic & African American Studies

American cities have been historic cauldrons of racial and ethnic conflict. Concentrates on urban violence in American cities since 1898. Students study moments of conflict during the early republic and the nineteenth century. Topics…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Bowdoin College · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share36.4—173—
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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