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Indiana University-Bloomington · Anthropology

4.4% of Indiana University-Bloomington's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Indiana University-Bloomington: 4.4% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

3%Far left92–100
28%Left75–91
56%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
3%Far right0–8
32 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

ANTH-E 346 · Global Anarchy92

Anthropology

Exploring everything from Antifa in the streets of Trump's America and anarcho-feminist essays to DIY punk scenes and apocalyptic zombie scenarios, this course seeks to advance a basic understanding of anarchist ideals, practices, and…

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ANTH-E 206 · Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean83

Anthropology

Explores Afro-Caribbean popular culture as political protest against colonialism and its legacies, the failures of local government, and global-northern political, economic and other forms of domination. Explores grass-roots Afro-Caribbean…

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ANTH-E 210 · Rethinking Race Globally83

Anthropology

Provides a global understanding of how race and structures of racism have been historically created, contemporarily understood, and structurally maintained.

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH-E 408 · Talk, Tales, and Television: Africa, Europe, the United States0

Anthropology

Colonialism, the slave trade, apartheid, African music, "Roots," Hollywood: these subjects link together Americans, Europeans, and Africans, and they are portrayed through talk, television, film, radio, and performance at specific sites.…

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ANTH-B 550 · Issues in Human Origins: Creation and Evolution33

Anthropology

Review of the creation/evolution controversy in a seminar setting. Fundamentals of organic evolution covered, especially pertaining to the origins of our species. Additionally, the major arguments as set forth by "scientific creationists"…

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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
Indiana University-Bloomington · Anthropologybias_left_share4.4—275—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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