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Brown University · Ethnic & African American Studies

34.8% of Brown University'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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Brown University: 34.8% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

2%Far left92–100
30%Left75–91
63%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
98 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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

Furthest left

AFRI 1030 · Contesting the Carceral State92

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course introduces students to the study of crime and justice through Black, feminist, queer and prison abolitionist frameworks, with a particular focus on narratives by people of African descent in the U.S. since 1965.

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ETHN 1751C · Sexy Good Medicine: Sex, Gender, and Indigeneity in92

Ethnic & African American Studies

(the) America(s). In this course, we will immerse ourselves in the academic field of Indigenous Gender and Sexuality Studies. While in Western societies gender and sexuality have traditionally been employed as tools of population…

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AFRI 0660 · Activist Scholarship: Research and Writing for Social88

Ethnic & African American Studies

Change. How can research advance the global social justice struggle? This course will emphasize the idea that education has never been a politically neutral undertaking. Students’ research can have social impact in the university and…

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Furthest right

None. Brown University Ethnic & African American Studies has 98 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
Brown University · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share34.8—282—
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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