Anthropology
Surveys Indigenous and post-colonial perspectives on South America with a specific focus on the peoples and cultures of the Amazon. Students draw on a combination of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence to examine the…
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Southern Methodist University · Anthropology
2.4% of Southern Methodist University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.
0%45%
Where Anthropology courses fall
0%Far left92–100
67%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%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.
Furthest-left subjects
Anthropology
Critiques and discusses the impact of "economic development," within a capitalist/globalization framework, on people's lives and communities across the developing world. Examines how capitalist development poses challenges to human rights,…
Anthropology
Explores topics in health and healing from a political economy perspective. Addresses social and economic factors influencing culture change, health, and healing practices within a society. Examines health inequities around the globe.…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Southern Methodist University Anthropology has 3 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University · Anthropology | bias_left_share | 2.4 | — | 85 | — |
| Anthropology | bias_left_share | 10.4 | 9.8 – 11.1 | 9,234 | — |
- 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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