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Marquette University · Religious Studies

2.2% of Marquette 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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Marquette University: 2.2% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
44%Left75–91
44%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
16 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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FramingSubject

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

THEO 3440 · Latin America and the Martyrs83

Religious Studies

Explores classical systematic or dogmatic themes in Christian Theology such as Christology, ecclesiology, the problem of suffering, etc., from the perspective of the liberating theology of Latin America. Presentation of contextual theology…

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THEO 8445 · The Development of Roman Catholic Theology from the Enlightenment to the Present83

Religious Studies

Focuses on the historical development of Roman Catholic theology from the Enlightenment to the present. Treats movements such as French Romanticism, Gallicanism, Ultramontanism, Newmanism, Modernism, New Theology and Transcendental Thomism,…

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THEO 8446 · History of Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century83

Religious Studies

Possible schools/movements and figures to be covered: Eschatological school (J. Weiss, Schweitzer), Religionsgeschichtliche Schule (Troeltsch), American Empiricism and Naturalism (William James, D.C. Macinosh, Dewey, Wieman), Dialectical…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Marquette University Religious Studies has 14 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
Marquette University · Religious Studiesbias_left_share2.2—226—
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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