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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · History

4.3% of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 4.3% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
7 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIST 410 · Decolonization in Africa72

History

Almost all African countries fell under European colonial rule by the beginning of the 20th century, but formal colonialism did not last the century. Surveys the crucial ideological, political, social, and military strategies enlisted by…

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HIST 172 · US History Since 187763

History

Survey of U.S. history from the end of the Civil War to the present, focusing on struggles to achieve a multiracial democracy, the evolution of an industrial, urbanized, and pluralistic society, the intersections between domestic and global…

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HIST 286 · US Gender History Since 187763

History

This course examines the historical construction of gender in the United States since 1877 with particular attention to women’s history. It considers how ideas about proper roles for men and women intersected with social categories such as…

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Furthest right

None. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign History has 7 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Historybias_left_share4.3—162—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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