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Swarthmore College · Political Science

15.7% of Swarthmore College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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Swarthmore College: 15.7% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
85%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

POLS 020E · Special Topics: History & Politics of Punishment: The School to Prison Pipeline (AP)72

Political Science

Tri-Co Philly Course This inter-disciplinary upper-level seminar will explore the complex school policies, teacher instructional decisions, as well as historical, political, social, economic, cultural, and structural forces that have given…

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POLS 033 · Democracy and Technology72

Political Science

New technologies are transforming democratic societies at warp speed. Social media apps like Facebook and Twitter have reshaped public discourse, while artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cryptocurrency, and bioengineering hold…

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POLS 070B · Politics of Punishment (AP)72

Political Science

The question of why the United States has become a vastly more punitive society-some 2.3 million Americans are held in jails and prisons throughout this country, at last count-is the subject of this upper-level division seminar. The aim of…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College Political Science has 13 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Swarthmore College · Political Sciencebias_left_share15.7—83—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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