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Swarthmore College · Women's & Gender Studies

12.5% of Swarthmore College'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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Swarthmore College: 12.5% 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

17%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

17%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

FMST 031 · Documentary Filmmaking as Cultural Work76

Women's & Gender Studies

This course is grounded in a conceptualization of non-fiction filmmaking as a type of "cultural work" - a creative activity with the political goal of making our society better, more humane, more equitable, more sustainable. We will explore…

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FMST 047 · Race and Media Studies74

Women's & Gender Studies

This course interrogates the foundational role of race in the development of modern technologies and media theory. Moving across different periods and media formations, we will address how race as a social category and cultural fantasy has…

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FMST 046 · Queer Media70

Women's & Gender Studies

(Cross-listed as ENGL 090 , GSST 020 ) The history of avant-garde and experimental media has been intertwined with that of gender non-conformity and sexual dissidence. Queer theory has developed in relation to queer film texts and cultures.…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College Women's & Gender Studies has 6 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Swarthmore College · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	12.5	—	48	—
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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