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Duke · Women's & Gender Studies

26.5% of Duke'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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Duke: 26.5% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

4%Far left92–100
70%Left75–91
22%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
27 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

GSF214 · Contemporary Israeli Cinema92

Women's & Gender Studies

History of socialist feminism as a global political movement and philosophical-theoretical tradition with a special focus on its divergent national trajectories and conflict-ridden relationship with liberal feminism and socialist and…

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GSF227S · Politics of Pandemics83

Women's & Gender Studies

Analyzes ways the production of space in architecture and urban theory also produce images of the ideal bodies supposed to inhabit them. Explores limits of the production of space from standpoint of feminist, queer, and critical race…

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GSF239D · Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History83

Women's & Gender Studies

Seminar introduces students to theory and practice of reading in Queer Studies through a variety of novels, films, and cultural criticism. Designed for mid level undergraduates who have some familiarity with literary studies and/or queer…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Duke Women's & Gender Studies has 26 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Duke · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share26.5—49—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
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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