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Pennsylvania State University-University Park · Ethnic & African American Studies

45.7% of Pennsylvania State University-University Park's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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Pennsylvania State University-University Park: 45.7% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

30%Left75–91

65%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

37 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

AFAM 212 · African Americans in the New Jim Crow Era, 1968-present83

Ethnic & African American Studies

An examination of Black political, economic, social, and cultural life in America from the era of colonization to 1905. AFAM 212 African Americans in the New Jim Crow Era, 1968-present (3) (US) This course covers the Black experience after…

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AFAM 233 · Connecting Social Movements: U.S. Civil Rights and African Liberation82

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course examines the interconnectedness of African liberation movements and the United States Civil Rights Movement, specifically focusing on periods of the 1950s through the 1970s. This course has three main aims. First, drawing from a…

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AFAM 435N · Black Ecologies80

Ethnic & African American Studies

African and African Diasporic peoples have been central to the creation and transformation of global ecologies and landscapes. As the birthplace of humankind, the African continent features the longest archaeological record in the world,…

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Furthest right

None. Pennsylvania State University-University Park Ethnic & African American Studies has 37 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Pennsylvania State University-University Park · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	45.7	—	81	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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