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University of Colorado-Boulder · Political Science

1.9% of University of Colorado-Boulder's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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University of Colorado-Boulder: 1.9% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100

33%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

3 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

PSCI 3174 · (3) Sex, Power, and Politics: U.S. Perspectives79

Political Science

Explores how norms of sex, gender, race and sexuality find expression in institutions and policies in ways that legitimize only certain individuals as political actors, certain identities as politically relevant, and certain relationships…

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PSCI 4322 · (3) Indigenous People's Politics65

Political Science

Explore critical concepts, conversations, and issues surrounding Indigenous peoples' politics and politics around the globe. Analyze the ways in which Indigenous peoples have been impacted by colonization and look at how Indigenous peoples…

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PSCI 3184 · (3) Race, Power, and Politics64

Political Science

Examines the fraught relationship between democracy and racial inequality in the US expressed in the founding contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and the recognition of slavery in the US Constitution. Explores these issues…

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Furthest right

None. University of Colorado-Boulder Political Science has 3 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
University of Colorado-Boulder · Political Science	bias_left_share	1.9	—	159	—
Political Science	bias_left_share	5.2	4.8 – 5.6	12,053	—

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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