Religious Studies
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18.8% of Swarthmore College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.
0%25%
Where Religious Studies courses fall
11%Far left92–100
57%Left75–91
18%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
7%Center-right26–41
4%Right9–25
4%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
Religious Studies
Social justice rhetoric and activism are often framed around the theme of a fight or a struggle - however noble - against the forces and powers of oppression. This course takes a different tack and approaches social justice via perspectives…
Religious Studies
Is scientific knowledge superior to ancestral wisdom or spirit revelation in its ability to apprehend and describe reality? This course interrogates the problem of coloniality as an imposition of power-knowledge that occurred as Iberians…
Furthest-right subjects
Religious Studies
A study of the religious history of India from the ancient Indo-Aryan civilization of the north to the establishment of Islam under Moghul rule. Topics include the ritual system of the Vedas, the philosophy of the Upanishads, the rise of…
Religious Studies
(Cross-listed as HIST 034 ) This course focuses on political expressions of Jewish identity since the late nineteenth century through an exploration of the central texts of Zionist thought. It integrates biblical, rabbinic, and medieval…
Religious Studies
The history of Hindu traditions in America can be divided into two groups. First, there are movements, such as transcendentalism, which are "Eastern-inspired" and borrow "Hindu" and "Buddhist" concepts, although participants generally…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swarthmore College · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 18.8 | — | 85 | — |
| Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 4.6 | 4.1 – 5.1 | 7,282 | — |
- 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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