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Stony Brook University · Women's & Gender Studies

14.3% of Stony Brook 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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Stony Brook University: 14.3% 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
73%Left75–91
27%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
11 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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FramingSubject

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

WST 111 · Introduction to Queer83

Women's & Gender Studies

Studies in the Humanities A survey of historical representations of sexuality and queerness from the late 19th century to the present. Through examination of art, media, literature, and philosophy, and critical theory, students develop an…

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WST 112 · Introduction to Queer83

Women's & Gender Studies

Studies in the Social Sciences An introduction to the field of queer studies emphasizing the perspectives of the qualitative social sciences. Through the examination of sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science, students…

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WST 301 · Histories of Feminism83

Women's & Gender Studies

A historical study of the theoretical and practical developments that form contemporary feminism and gender studies. Although the course concentrates primarily on feminist histories in the United States, it also places those histories…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Stony Brook University Women's & Gender Studies has 11 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Stony Brook University · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share14.3—35—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
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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