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Southern Methodist University · Women's & Gender Studies

0% of Southern Methodist University'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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Southern Methodist University: 0% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

33%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

3 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

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

WGST 3370 · Possible Futures: Feminist Theory and Speculative Fiction75

Women's & Gender Studies

Examines a variety of speculative texts alongside works of feminist theory and explores the underlying systems that have shaped the concepts of sex, gender, race, and other categories. By making our world and assumptions strange to us,…

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WGST 3340 · Introduction to Transgender Studies70

Women's & Gender Studies

Introduction to the field of transgender studies through four perspectives: history, theory, literature, and cinema. Taught with an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach combining disciplines such as women's studies, political…

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WGST 3328 · Gender, Violence, and Health67

Women's & Gender Studies

Examines how gender-based violence shapes individual and collective experiences, material realities, and psychological states, as well as the impacts of interventions on intimate, interpersonal, local, and global scales.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Southern Methodist University Women's & Gender Studies 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 · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	0	—	8	—
Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	34.5	33.0 – 36.0	3,812	—

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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