History
Prerequisite: One non-language course in a relevant discipline or field at NYU. China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR, 1966-1976) was one of the most important political and cultural events of the twentieth century. Many…
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New York University's course descriptions average 65.1 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so New York University reads 2.5 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
4%Far left92–100
26%Left75–91
36%Center-left59–74
17%Center42–58
4%Center-right26–41
11%Right9–25
2%Far right0–8
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
History
The revolution made Mao as much as Mao made the revolution. We investigate Mao’s thought and theories, as well as his revolutionary practice, not as biographical artifacts but as products of and contributors to the revolutionary situation…
Political Science
Comparative study of terrorism as a domestic political phenomenon. Examines foundational issues, economic, psychological, strategic, and social theories of terrorism as well as theories of the cessation of terrorist violence, government…
Furthest-right subjects
Ethnic & African American Studies
Formerly SCA-UA 101. Either this course OR Cultures and Contexts: The Black Atlantic (CORE-UA 534) can count as the second Introductory course for the Africana Studies major or minor or the SCA major (but not the SCA minor). Specific topics…
History
This course will examine the philosophical origins, theoretical characterizations and historical and political evolution of fascist political movements in Europe. The course is comparative in method and scope concentrating on the common…
History
"""The social, political, and cultural forces that shaped Jewish life in post-1945 Europe. Topics include reconstruction of Jewish communities, repression and anti-Semitic campaigns in the Soviet Union and Poland, the impact of Israel,…
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 63.0 to 67.2; 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.
New York University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 41.7% | 12 | view |
| Anthropology | 16.2% | 99 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 13.7% | 51 | view |
| Religious Studies | 8.8% | 34 | view |
| Sociology | 4.5% | 67 | view |
| Political Science | 2.8% | 72 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 2.7% | 74 | view |
| Economics | 2.4% | 41 | view |
| History | 2.3% | 130 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 69 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 48 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 37 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | mean_bias_score | 65.1 | 63.0 – 67.2 | 734 | 43 |
| 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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