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Bowdoin College · Women's & Gender Studies

54.4% of Bowdoin College's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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Bowdoin College: 54.4% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

2%Far left92–100
29%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
2%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
49 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

GSWS 2001 · (DPI) Queer Theory92

Women's & Gender Studies

This course introduces students to major theoretical debates that have shaped the interdisciplinary field of queer studies. Through readings and media that interrogate LGBTQ+ lived experiences, artistic expression, and activism, this class…

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GSWS 2348 · (b, IP) Girlhood and Empire: Girls, Power, and Resistance in Global Perspectives90

Women's & Gender Studies

Investigates the construction of girlhood through the lens of global feminist resistance, centering the writings and struggles of young women and femmes in the experience and practice of colonized, transnational, and refugee girlhood. With…

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GSWS 2725 · (c, DPI, VPA) Rage: Women, Activism, and Performance in the Americas88

Women's & Gender Studies

Rage is a political act. Feminists have turned to rage politics to fight against gender violence, misogyny, and institutionalized patriarchy for decades. This seminar explores when, why, and how women-identifying subjects in the Americas…

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Furthest right

None. Bowdoin College Women's & Gender Studies has 49 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
Bowdoin College · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share54.4—90—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
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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