History
Examination of the development of communism as an ideological doctrine, a form of state power, and a lived experience from the mid-19th century until the present. Topics include Karl Marx and the origins of modern communism in the mid-19th…
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Tufts University · History
4.1% of Tufts University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
2%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
22%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
9%Right9–25
9%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
History
An introduction to modern Russia from the "great reforms" of the mid-19th century until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Topics to be covered include the emancipation of the serfs; late imperial society, politics, and culture;…
History
(Cross-listed with CST 109 & RCD 109) Third World, Black diaspora, postcolonial theory, and gender, sexuality & queer studies, including Hartman, Brand, Muñoz, Morrison, Fanon, Mohanty, among others. Study of structures of colonialism,…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Germany since the 1840s, from unification to unification. Bismarck's Germany. World policy and world war. Weimar democracy. The National Socialist dictatorship and another war. Defeat and reconstruction. The two Germanies. A new Germany in a new Europe?
History
Katherine.Hollander@tufts.ed u Germany since the 1840s, from unification to unification. Bismarck's Germany. World policy and world war. Weimar democracy. The National Socialist dictatorship and another war. Defeat and reconstruction. The…
History
The roots of African origin populations in the Americas. Introduction to major West African political and social groups and their involvement in the Atlantic system; exploration of the historical demography of African diaspora to the…
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 · History | bias_left_share | 4.1 | — | 146 | — |
| History | bias_left_share | 8.3 | 7.9 – 8.7 | 17,232 | — |
- 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.