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Rice University · History

6.9% of Rice University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Rice University: 6.9% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
7%Left75–91
79%Center-left59–74
14%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
14 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

HIST 112 · MODERN PALESTINIAN HISTORY75

History

This course explores the settler colonial experience of Palestine from the period of late-Ottoman rule to the 1967 occupation and its aftermath. Using a broad range of primary sources, students evaluate lively historiographical debates and theoretical approaches.

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HIST 329 · OUR AMERICA: LATIN AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES72

History

This course explores the complex power dynamics between Latin America and the United States from the 19th century to the present and identifies how both regions have been shaped by each other. This has been a relationship marked by intense…

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HIST 208 · RACE AND MEDICINE IN AMERICAN HISTORY70

History

This course explores how medical theories have supported racial inequalities in American history from the beginning of European settlement until today. It traces the emergence of the concept of race, its effect on the development of modern…

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Furthest right

None. Rice University History has 14 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
Rice University · Historybias_left_share6.9—204—
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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