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Pennsylvania State University-University Park · Women's & Gender Studies

68% of Pennsylvania State University-University Park'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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Pennsylvania State University-University Park: 68% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

6%Far left92–100
35%Left75–91
59%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
17 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

WMNST 400N · Debates in Contemporary Feminism92

Women's & Gender Studies

This course is an advanced seminar in feminist and gender theory. The primary focus is critical engagement with social, political, and cultural theories of the social construction of gender and gender difference, and of the sources, causes,…

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WMNST 301N · Sexualities, Gender and Power: Feminist Thought and Politics80

Women's & Gender Studies

WMNST 301N Sexualities, Gender and Power: Feminist Thought and Politics (3) (GH;GS;US;) This course is an interdisciplinary survey of historical and contemporary feminist theories in both the United States and international contexts. While…

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WMNST 120 · Sex, Gender, and the Body78

Women's & Gender Studies

This introductory course considers core topics in the field of feminist sexuality studies to both unsettle popular mainstream discourses on sexuality and to aid students in developing a more comprehensive, inclusive, and ethical lens…

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Furthest right

None. Pennsylvania State University-University Park Women's & Gender Studies has 17 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 · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share68—25—
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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