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Brigham Young University · Women's & Gender Studies

6.7% of Brigham Young University'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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Brigham Young University: 6.7% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
2 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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FramingSubject

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

GWS 341 · Women and Global Migration67

Women's & Gender Studies

Exploration of how gender affects im/migration trends, laws, policies, patterns, and migrants' lived experiences, especially for women, and how migration occurs on a voluntary and involuntary basis between, within, and across borders. An…

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GWS 392R · Global Women's Studies Colloquium67

Women's & Gender Studies

Scholarly findings presented by researchers on topics relating to the effect of gender norms on the ways we live, the impact of social issues and power structures on women's lives, and the contributions of women throughout history and around the world.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Brigham Young University Women's & Gender Studies has 2 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Brigham Young University · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share6.7—15—
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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