Anthropology
(Cross-listed w/ CST 168) Anthropological tools to analyze colonialism and to evaluate anthropology's complex historical and contemporary relationship to colonialism and decolonization. How do colonial states and societies maintain…
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Tufts University · Anthropology
20.2% of Tufts University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.
0%45%
Where Anthropology courses fall
3%Far left92–100
44%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
0%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.
Furthest-left subjects
Anthropology
Introduction to North American archaeology-primarily focused on pre-colonial Indigenous histories and cultures. Examines history of the field, basics of archaeological method and theory, key insights and controversies associated with North…
Anthropology
(Cross-listed as WGSS 124) Meanings surrounding queer sexual practices and subjectivities, derived from anthropological research from throughout the world and classic works on queer theory. Counts toward the Cultural and Social Justice Anthropology minors.
Furthest-right subjects
Anthropology
Historical archaeology as the study of the last 500 years of human history. Combines archaeological remains, historical texts, and oral records to study capitalism, colonialism, and globalization. The methods, theories, and data sets of…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufts University · Anthropology | bias_left_share | 20.2 | — | 89 | — |
| Anthropology | bias_left_share | 10.4 | 9.8 – 11.1 | 9,234 | — |
- 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.