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Middlebury College · Women's & Gender Studies

59.4% of Middlebury College's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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Middlebury College: 59.4% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

5%Far left92–100
16%Left75–91
79%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
19 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

GSFS 0342 · Social Feminism92

Women's & Gender Studies

What is the relationship of patriarchy to class oppression? We will examine how feminists and the left have attempted to answer this question, from the 19th century to the present-day. We will do so through an exploration of socialist…

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GSFS 0316 · White People82

Women's & Gender Studies

White people did not just appear out of nowhere. Instead, they are the result of a long history of structural and everyday racism that was always intertwined with class, sex, sexuality, and nation. We will explore how whiteness became a…

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GSFS 0200 · Feminist Foundations78

Women's & Gender Studies

This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. Focusing on the histories of feminism in the U.S., from the nineteenth century to the present, the course reveals the importance…

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Furthest right

None. Middlebury College Women's & Gender Studies has 19 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
Middlebury College · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share59.4—32—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
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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