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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

8%Far left92–100

49%Left75–91

33%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

2%Far right0–8

49 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.

Furthest-left subjects

AFAM 233 · Connecting Social Movements: U.S. Civil Rights and African Liberation96

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 102 · Women of the African Diaspora94

Ethnic & African American Studies

Women of the African Diaspora is an introduction to studying the lives of African Diaspora women and the systems of power that shape them across cultures and geographies. The course centers on the politics of race and gender, on notions of…

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AFAM 114N · Race, Gender and Sport92

Ethnic & African American Studies

In 1969, sociologist Harry Edwards declared that a surge of protest among African American athletes marked "the newest phase of the black liberation movement in America." Nearly five decades later, athletes such as Richard Sherman, Serena…

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Furthest-right subjects

AFR 403 · South Africa Today0

Ethnic & African American Studies

A course examining the South African government's policy of apartheid: its history, why it exists, how it works, and the prospects for change.

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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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