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Emory University's course descriptions average 62.3 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Emory University reads 5.3 points further right.

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Emory University: 62.3 (likely range 60.5 to 64.0) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

86%Center-left59–74

14%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

21 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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

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WGS 315 · The Sex of Race73

Women's & Gender Studies

This interdisciplinary course demonstrates how histories of settler colonialism, imperialism, racial "science," and enslavement generated racial categories that were inherently sexed and gendered. It asks how these histories influence the…

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WGS 314 · Critical Race Theory70

Women's & Gender Studies

How does race manifest itself in law? How does whiteness become a form of property? How do race and gender function in relation to each other? we will explore various theoretical and philosophical readings on race, gender, and various…

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ECON 350 · Economics of Systemic Racism67

Economics

Investigate the limitations behind traditional approaches to racial discrimination in economics; explore the history of anti-Black racism in the US and its economic consequences, and consider how understanding of systemic racism could lead…

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None. Emory University has 21 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 60.5 to 64.0; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Only 21 of Emory University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
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.

Emory University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	18.2%	22	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	9.2%	65	view
Sociology	5.5%	55	view
History	3.4%	148	view
Economics	1.7%	60	view
Political Science	1.1%	93	view
Anthropology	1.0%	98	view
Art & Art History	0%	66	view
English & Comparative Literature	0%	116	view
Philosophy	0%	82	view
Psychology	0%	70	view
Religious Studies	0%	60	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
Emory University	mean_bias_score	62.3	60.5 – 64.0	935	21
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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