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Florida State University · Religious Studies

3.1% of Florida State University'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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Florida State University: 3.1% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

20%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

20%Center-left59–74

40%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

20%Far right0–8

5 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

REL 3493 · Religion, Prisons, and Abolition100

Religious Studies

This course makes two claims: 1) Without religious ideas and practices, prisons as we know them would be unthinkable; and 2) Religious ideas and practices are essential for building a world without prisons. Using historical, geographic,…

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REL 3138 · Religious Intolerance in America67

Religious Studies

This course examines the long and ongoing history of religious intolerance in America with respect to a wide range of religious groups and agnostic/atheistic persons, and with an eye to the ways in which religious intolerance intersects with race, ethnicity, class, and gender.

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Furthest-right subjects

REL 3194 · The Holocaust0

Religious Studies

This course examines the origins, the process, and the consequences of the destruction of the European Jews during World War II.

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Florida State University · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	3.1	—	64	—
Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.6	4.1 – 5.1	7,282	—

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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