History
History of Russia from the war against Japan in 1904 to post-Soviet wars in Chechnya. Focus on how international conflicts affected Russian politics, culture, and society: Revolution of 1905, turmoil in First World War, revolutions of 1917,…
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Rutgers University-New Brunswick's course descriptions average 64.8 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Rutgers University-New Brunswick reads 2.7 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
5%Far left92–100
32%Left75–91
29%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
4%Center-right26–41
10%Right9–25
7%Far right0–8
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
Recent past of Russian culture and politics. Study of how the Stalinist past influenced late Soviet Russian culture, contributed to the collapse of the USSR, and shaped post-Soviet Russia through examination of powerful fiction texts and…
Philosophy
Central introduction to Marx's thought. Topics such as materialism;dialectics; analysis of capitalism; class and class struggle; and social revolution, a political program for socialism.
Furthest-right subjects
English & Comparative Literature
Examination of transformation of Nietzsche's bermensch (overman) into the American Superman heroes of our contemporary culture. Analysis of impact of this motif on gender studies, animal studies, and contemporary media technologies:…
English & Comparative Literature
Exploration of important role of cinema during Nazi era. Study of historical situation in Germany between 1933 and 1945, and of representative films produced in Germany under the Nazi regime. Focus on the staging of power, representations…
History
Historical survey of the institution of slavery from antiquity to the present day, with particular attention to the relationship of human bondage to broader progress of social and economic change.
Why this number, in plain words
Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.
50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.
Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 62.9 to 66.8; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 18.8% | 85 | view |
| Sociology | 7.1% | 70 | view |
| History | 2.4% | 338 | view |
| Political Science | 1.6% | 126 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0.9% | 756 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0.8% | 120 | view |
| Anthropology | 0% | 15 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 159 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 124 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick | mean_bias_score | 64.8 | 62.9 – 66.8 | 1,793 | 39 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |
- Formula
- SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
- Interval
- normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.
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