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College of William and Mary · Anthropology

9.6% of College of William and Mary's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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College of William and Mary: 9.6% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

9%Far left92–100

64%Left75–91

27%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

11 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

ANTH 326 · Indigenous Voices in Conservation94

Anthropology

Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): BIOL 204 or CONS 201 or ENSP 101 College Curriculum: COLL 350 The field of conservation emerged along with settler-colonialism at the end of the 19th century, and it was linked to white settler strategies of…

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ANTH 318 · The Anthropology of Racialized Bodies & Places90

Anthropology

Credits: (3) Race and racism are critical machines of modern power. This course explores the historical, economic, and political processes that shaped the formation of modern race and its endurance in the present- namely modernity,…

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ANTH 305 · Comparative Colonial Studies83

Anthropology

Credits: (3) The course will examine colonialism from a comparative perspective in both the ancient and the modern world. Emphasis given to early civilizations and their expansion, to European colonialism and the creation of the Third…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. College of William and Mary Anthropology has 11 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
College of William and Mary · Anthropology	bias_left_share	9.6	—	73	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

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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