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Brown University · Women's & Gender Studies

48.9% of Brown 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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Brown University: 48.9% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

15%Far left92–100

57%Left75–91

25%Center-left59–74

1%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

1%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

72 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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Framing Subject

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

GNSS 1960V · The Communist Experience in Eastern Europe: Genres100

Women's & Gender Studies

of Interpretation. Almost twenty-five years after the disintegration of the communist regimes across Eastern Europe, the question of how to remember the communist experience is highly contested. This interdisciplinary course highlights the…

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GNSS 1961M · Humanity or Nah? Blackness, Gender, Resistance, and100

Women's & Gender Studies

Memory in Monuments, Maps, and Archives. This course explores the liberatory archaeologies of racialized, gendered, and sexual memory(-ies) articulated by Xicanx, Latinx, Native American, and Africana scholars, artists, activists, and…

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GNSS 1961Q · Conversations in Trans/Feminisms: Theories, Cultures,100

Women's & Gender Studies

& Politics. This course explores the bridges and tensions between trans* and feminist movements through academic & activist literature/cultural production. How & why did transfeminism as a critical intervention in relation to feminist…

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Furthest-right subjects

GNSS 1710 · Sex and the Law: Strange Bedfellows25

Women's & Gender Studies

This class will examine legal debates about sexual activity and sexual speech generated by alternate, incompatible views of the source and function of laws and the role of the legal system in enforcing moral codes. We will look at works…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Brown University · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	48.9	—	92	—
Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	34.5	33.0 – 36.0	3,812	—

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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