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Johns Hopkins University's course descriptions average 69.8 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Johns Hopkins University reads 2.3 points further left.

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Johns Hopkins University: 69.8 (likely range 67.8 to 71.8) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

11%Far left92–100

43%Left75–91

34%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

2%Center-right26–41

2%Right9–25

2%Far right0–8

190 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

AS.060.315 · Literature of Incarceration100

English & Comparative Literature

We will take up a history of writing from and about various carceral sites (prison, detention camps, etc-- as well as Circe’ island and Jonah’s whale) to see what they can teach us about larger questions of the movement (or not) of certain…

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AS.060.642 · Reading Capital Now100

English & Comparative Literature

Since the 2008 financial crash, there’s been rising popular consciousness of capitalism’s crisis-bound character and, therefore, its vulnerability. But finance isn’t the only thing that capitalism has brought to a boiling point: for…

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AS.100.634 · The Haitian Revolution100

History

This seminar examines the origins, course, and legacies of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), the most radical movement of the Age of Revolutions. It explores the colonial background, the overthrow of slavery, the founding of an…

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Furthest-right subjects

AS.100.247 · Making War in a New World: Warfare in Early America, 1492-18040

History

Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean set off a chain of violence that swept through the early modern Americas. In this course we will investigate how warfare shaped North America and the Caribbean in the period between Columbus’s fateful…

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AS.100.314 · The Enlightenment0

History

Examines the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that swept Europe in the eighteenth century to shape the modern world. Students will not only read canonical works of the period (Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, etc.) but also consider the…

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AS.190.475 · America in Comparative and International Perspective0

Political Science

Over the last quarter millennium, the United States of America has been the most successful state in world politics. It has had the world’s largest economy since 1870, and was on the winning side of the three great world struggles of the…

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Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 67.8 to 71.8; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Johns Hopkins University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	50%	16	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	29.2%	24	view
Political Science	23.0%	174	view
English & Comparative Literature	16.8%	161	view
History	6.8%	146	view
Philosophy	2.6%	116	view
Economics	2.0%	99	view
Psychology	1.3%	79	view
Anthropology	0%	1	view
Art & Art History	0%	33	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Johns Hopkins University	mean_bias_score	69.8	67.8 – 71.8	849	99
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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