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University of Alabama's course descriptions average 66.8 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Alabama reads 0.7 points further right.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

University of Alabama: 66.8 (likely range 64.0 to 69.6) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

3%Far left92–100

10%Left75–91

77%Center-left59–74

10%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

WS 570 · Transnational Feminisms92

Women's & Gender Studies

Transnational Feminisms is a contemporary paradigm of study that moves beyond international conceptions of feminism to think across national borders by interrogating the intersections of nationality, race, gender, class, and sexuality in…

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WS 200 · Intro To Women Studies85

Women's & Gender Studies

An interdisciplinary course examining the roles of women in patriarchal society, with emphasis on how factors such as race, class, gender, and sexuality contribute to the oppression of women and ways they can be challenged through feminist critical practices.

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WS 407 · Contemporary Feminism76

Women's & Gender Studies

Political theory has traditionally associated men with citizenship, public life, and affairs of state, while subordinating or ignoring women’s interests, experiences, and voices. Feminist political theory challenges this imbalance, while…

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Furthest right

None. University of Alabama has 30 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 64.0 to 69.6; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

University of Alabama by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	21.9%	32	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	17.4%	23	view
Sociology	15.8%	19	view
History	4.6%	131	view
Anthropology	3.5%	114	view
Art & Art History	2.5%	120	view
Political Science	2.1%	94	view
Philosophy	1.8%	57	view
Economics	0%	58	view
English & Comparative Literature	0%	124	view
Psychology	0%	66	view
Religious Studies	0%	59	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Alabama	mean_bias_score	66.8	64.0 – 69.6	897	30
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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