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Florida State University · History

1.8% of Florida State University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Florida State University: 1.8% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

11%Far left92–100
17%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
17%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
6%Right9–25
17%Far right0–8
18 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

EUH 4576 · 20th-Century Russia100

History

This course examines the social, econom ic, cultural, and international, as well as political, development of Russia from the final years of Tsarist rule through the Bolshevik Revolution to its emergence as one of the world's superpowers in the 1990s.

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LAH 3480 · History of Cuba92

History

This course covers the 1959 Cuban Revolution, which captured the world's attention and continues to fascinate. But Cuba's history since European encounter has encompassed every aspect of the human experience. This course covers the island's…

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LAH 5475 · History of the Caribbean90

History

This course is a survey of the history of the Latin American Caribbean. Special attention is given to such topics as the Cuban Revolution and recent United States-Puerto Rican relations. World History

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Furthest-right subjects

EUH 4241 · The Holocaust in Historical Perspective0

History

This course de tails the background and career of the Holocaust as well as the continuing problem of "Holocaust denial." Special emphasis is given to the ideas of such racists as de Gobineau and Hitler.

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EUH 4465 · Weimar and Nazi Germany0

History

This course examines the back ground of the Nazi regime, the character of Hitler's dictatorship, and the origins and course of WWII in its European context. Also examined is National Socialism's impact on German institutions and racial consequences.

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EUH 3436 · Italy During World War II8

History

This course introduces how the Second World War developed and evolved in Italy from 1940 until 1945. In the course, students begin by examining the origins of fascism and the radicalization of Italian foreign policy in the 1930s.

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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
Florida State University · Historybias_left_share1.8—167—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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