Women's & Gender Studies
(Also offered as POLS 5410.) Major debates at the core of black feminist theory, emphasizing the ways in which interlocking systems of oppression uphold and sustain each other in contemporary U.S. politics.
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University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut's course descriptions average 65.5 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Connecticut reads 2.0 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
0%Far left92–100
14%Left75–91
81%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest left
Ethnic & African American Studies
(Also offered as AFRA 6470.) Theory and practice of how teaching within a higher education context can work toward racially equitable learning experiences and decoloniality of the classroom.
Ethnic & African American Studies
(Also offered as SOCI 2520 .) The origin, nature, and consequences of white racism as a central and enduring social principle around which the United States and other modern societies are structured and evolve. CA 4. View Classes
Furthest right
None. University of Connecticut has 81 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 64.2 to 66.8; 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 Connecticut by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 24.6% | 65 | view |
| Sociology | 19.6% | 97 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 9.2% | 292 | view |
| Philosophy | 4.2% | 48 | view |
| Political Science | 4% | 125 | view |
| History | 3.4% | 175 | view |
| Anthropology | 2.5% | 81 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 1.7% | 176 | view |
| Economics | 1.4% | 73 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 134 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 60 | 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 Connecticut | mean_bias_score | 65.5 | 64.2 – 66.8 | 1,326 | 81 |
| 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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