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College of William and Mary · Ethnic & African American Studies

16.4% of College of William and Mary'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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College of William and Mary: 16.4% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

57%Left75–91

39%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

23 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

AFST 332 · Sex & Race in Plays & Films: Pedagogies Towards Freedom & Justice90

Ethnic & African American Studies

Credits: (4) College Curriculum: COLL 200, COLL 300, ARTS Domain (Anchored): ALV Domain (Reaching Out): CSI Study of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality in plays and films dramatizing diverse marginalized and minoritized…

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APIA 332 · Sex & Race in Plays & Films: Pedagogies Towards Freedom & Justice85

Ethnic & African American Studies

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AFST 300 · Pan-Africanism: History of a Revolutionary Idea83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Credits: (3) This course surveys the history of Pan-Africanism, a global political movement that considers Africans and diasporic blacks to have a common history, present and future, often proclaiming an objective of African political,…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. College of William and Mary Ethnic & African American Studies has 22 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 · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	16.4	—	61	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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