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Pennsylvania State University-University Park · History

8.4% of Pennsylvania State University-University Park's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Pennsylvania State University-University Park: 8.4% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
91%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
11 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIST 166 · History of Sexuality71

History

WMNST/ HIST 166 History of Sexuality (3) (GH;US)This is a 100-level course on the history of sexuality, spanning several centuries and a wide range of contexts. The study of sexuality offers a particularly good lens for developing students'…

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HIST 425 · History of the Incas69

History

This course examines the political, social, cultural, environmental and religious history of the Incas and their Andean subjects from the 15th century to the present. Via written and visual primary and secondary sources, the course explores…

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HIST 424 · Comparative History of Sports and Politics65

History

Although sport is popularly considered as a sphere separate from other aspects of social and political dynamics, this course illustrates the contrary reality that both active and passive involvements in competitive sports have taken part in…

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Furthest right

None. Pennsylvania State University-University Park History has 11 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
Pennsylvania State University-University Park · Historybias_left_share8.4—131—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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