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Howard University · Religious Studies

1.9% of Howard 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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Howard University: 1.9% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
38%Left75–91
63%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 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

BSOT 225 · Women in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran78

Religious Studies

This course is unique in its nature and structure. It is a team-taught course on a timely topic, women in the two sacred texts. Students will compare and contrast theological debate amongst feminists, womanists, and general theologians. The…

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THEO 315 · Black Theology78

Religious Studies

This course is a study of contemporary black theology in the United States. The course examines the history, methodology, and systematic construction of black theology. Critical assessments of black theology and alternative models for the…

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BSOT 210 · OT/Hebrew Bible II75

Religious Studies

This is the second half of a two-semester course intended to introduce students to a critical (that is, analytical) way of reading, thinking, writing, and speaking about the contents of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the history and…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Howard University Religious Studies has 8 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
Howard University · Religious Studiesbias_left_share1.9—54—
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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