Anthropology
This course examines language as practice in relation to the concepts and consequences of race, racism and racial identity in the contemporary U.S. Based in linguistic anthropology but also drawing from medical anthropology, the course…
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University of Alabama · Anthropology
3.5% of University of Alabama'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
0%Far left92–100
29%Left75–91
29%Center-left59–74
29%Center42–58
14%Center-right26–41
0%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
This course examines the complex relationships between gender, race, culture, science, and technology from an anthropological perspective. The course provides an array of vantage points to analyze complex social issues and centers the…
Anthropology
Explores the gendered, ethnic, cultural, and class dimensions that underlie the patterning of disease and illness worldwide, with attention to the long-term health effects of racism, sexism and poverty. Topics include reproductive and…
Furthest-right subjects
Anthropology
The course examines ethnicity, nationalism, democratization, unification, and fragmentation with an emphasis on specific countries or regions within Europe. Classic anthropological topics, such as kinship, political organization, ritual,…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alabama · Anthropology | bias_left_share | 3.5 | — | 114 | — |
| 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.
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