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Claremont McKenna College's course descriptions average 64.6 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Claremont McKenna College reads 2.9 points further right.

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Claremont McKenna College: 64.6 (likely range 62.6 to 66.7) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

4%Far left92–100

19%Left75–91

37%Center-left59–74

23%Center42–58

6%Center-right26–41

7%Right9–25

6%Far right0–8

106 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

HIST 133A · Late Imperial Russian History, 1861-1917100

History

This course is designed to offer students a basic knowledge of late imperial Russian politics and culture, and to provide background for understanding the rise of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Offered: Occasionally Course Number: HIST133A CM

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GOVT 179 · Law, Order, Justice, and Society92

Political Science

This course considers the ideas of major writers in the field of political theory who have contributed insight into the concepts of law, order, justice, and society. Topics will include conceptions of human nature, natural law, social…

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HIST 133B · Modern Russian History, 1917 to the Present92

History

This course analyzes Russian society and politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods. Emphasis will be placed on the Russian revolutionary experience, on the origins and implications of Stalinism, on the Soviet Union after Stalin, and on…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 116 · Slavery: A World History0

History

This course examines the history of slavery in many global locations across multiple periods of time. Beginning with ancient forms of bound labor, it then traces the growth of slavery in the Americas, built initially upon the enslavement of…

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HIST 139E · Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany0

History

A study of the transformation of German culture and society from 1919-1945. Begins with intellectual dilemmas of 19 th -century Germany. Examines flourishing culture and political turmoils of Weimar democracy, Hitler's rise to power in…

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HIST 146 · History of Germany, 1740 to the Present0

History

Traces the history of German lands from Frederick the Great to recent reunification. The rise of Prussia, the mixed responses to the Enlightenment, the emergence of Bismarck, and the creation of a unified German state in 1871, are examined…

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Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 62.6 to 66.7; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Claremont McKenna College by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Ethnic & African American Studies	40%	10	view
History	11.4%	105	view
Psychology	9.3%	43	view
Religious Studies	6.7%	60	view
Philosophy	3.7%	54	view
Political Science	3.5%	114	view
English & Comparative Literature	3.3%	91	view
Economics	0%	65	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Claremont McKenna College	mean_bias_score	64.6	62.6 – 66.7	542	33
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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