Ethnic & African American Studies
A study of the Black Power Movement's promotions of racial pride, self-determination, unity, and revolution in American society and abroad from 1955-1975. Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing
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Stony Brook University · Ethnic & African American Studies
9.8% of Stony Brook University's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.
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Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall
0%Far left92–100
37%Left75–91
40%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
11%Right9–25
3%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
Ethnic & African American Studies
Politics, Culture, and Power Explores the history of revolutionary nation-building efforts in 20th century China, examining social, cultural, economic and political developments during the "Republican" and "Maoist" periods. Focuses on key…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Caribbean Perspectives Designed to introduce students to the complexities of human sexuality from a perspective that places subaltern individuals at the center of the analysis. It locates these individuals, and their sexual practices, in…
Furthest-right subjects
Ethnic & African American Studies
The historical experience of blacks in slavery from a social and historical perspective with emphasis on the American South and with comparative references to slave systems as they developed in the western hemisphere. Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing
Ethnic & African American Studies
An analysis of political concepts often associated with racism and the tracing of the origins of the concept of race. Forms in which racism manifests itself today are identified and discussed showing the similarities and differences where…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 14 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2024 Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many religions' indigenous belief systems, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam It is also arguably a region with…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Brook University · Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 9.8 | — | 143 | — |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 24.7 | 23.7 – 25.6 | 7,955 | — |
- 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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