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Hamilton College · Religious Studies

14.3% of Hamilton 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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Hamilton College: 14.3% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
25%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
4 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

RELST 231 · Judaism and Social Justice70

Religious Studies

Jews have been at the forefront of many modern and contemporary social justice movements, including the labor movement, the struggle for civil rights, environmental justice, gender equality, and LGBTQ equality. Why? What does Jewish…

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RELST 337 · Religious Dimensions of Global Indigeneity65

Religious Studies

Broadly imagined and interdisciplinary, we compare Indigenous agency and autonomy in two communities--the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of New York State, and the Catholic community of West Belfast in Northern Ireland. The profound and…

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RELST 247 · Religion and Gender in American History61

Religious Studies

In this course students examine the ways in which religious ideas have shaped Americans' conceptions and performances of femininity and masculinity, and vice versa. Using case studies from the colonial period through contemporary times, we…

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Furthest right

None. Hamilton College Religious Studies has 4 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Hamilton College · Religious Studiesbias_left_share14.3—28—
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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