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University of Houston · Ethnic & African American Studies

14% of University of Houston's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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University of Houston: 14% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

7%Far left92–100
36%Left75–91
57%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
14 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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

AAS 2330 · Black Liberation Theology95

Ethnic & African American Studies

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 . Description This course will examine, compare and contrast the theologies and resulting programmatic actions taken by persons espousing Black Liberation Theology.…

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AAS 3377 · Black Feminist Thought83

Ethnic & African American Studies

3.0Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0 Lab Contact Hours: 0.0Prerequisite: AAS 2320 . Description Black Feminist Thought seeks to exsplain how Black women are defined in a variety of cultural contexts, as well as examine how race, gender and…

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AAS 6311 · African American Social and Philosophical Foundations83

Ethnic & African American Studies

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: None. This course examines both Afro-American Philosophy proper and the philosophical concerns of Afro-Americans generally, through a treatment of their works. This course will be…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Houston Ethnic & African American Studies has 14 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Houston · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share14—50—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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