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9.8% of Dartmouth College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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Dartmouth College: 9.8% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
30%Left75–91
35%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
4%Center-right26–41
22%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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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

REL 74.19 · Islam in Diaspora: Colonial pasts and83

Religious Studies

Decolonial Futures This course takes advantage of being in Edinburgh: we will reflect on Scotland’s own history and location in the British Empire to inspire us to study colonial pasts of Muslim imperial subjects of the Empire, how…

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REL 19.23 · Ecology, Ethics and Religion80

Religious Studies

The biosphere has evolved a level of biodiversity unprecedented in earth history in a period (the last ten thousand years) known as the Holocene in which humans evolved from hunter-gatherers to agrarians and industrialists. Agriculture…

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REL 1.05 · Religion and Gender78

Religious Studies

Are all religions sexist? How can we know? This course is about approaches to the study of religions from the perspective of gender. We will read foundational works of religious history and feminist and queer theology that shed light on…

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Furthest-right subjects

REL 40.07 · Hindus and Muslims in India17

Religious Studies

Hindu nationalist rhetoric in India today claims that India has always been an inherently “Hindu state,” and that “Hindu” and “Muslim” are two distinct, mutually exclusive, and oppositional identities locked in a relationship of eternal…

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REL 74.12 · Merchant of Venice: The Jew in the17

Religious Studies

Protestant Imagination This seminar is an interdisciplinary study of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice that will examine the history of Christianity’s attitudes toward Judaism, the fate of Jews within Christian Europe, especially in…

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REL 16.02 · Modern Islam25

Religious Studies

In all the attention focused on Islam at present, a newspaper reader could be forgiven for supposing that between Muhammad and Usamah bin Laden, there has been no change in Islam. This course surveys developments in Islamic religious…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Dartmouth College · Religious Studiesbias_left_share9.8—122—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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