History
The African Diaspora in South Florida through a close analyses of three junctures in the history of the Black experience: The slave trade, abolition and emancipation; the migration of various African-descended peoples from the Caribbean and…
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University of Miami
University of Miami's course descriptions average 62.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Miami reads 4.7 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
4%Far left92–100
26%Left75–91
51%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
6%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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
The evolution of both Marxian theory and communist societies. How are Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and o:her schools of thought different from one another and from the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels? What is the history…
Political Science
Examination of the creation, breakdown, and aftermath of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence from four case studies, develops a theoretical framework for understanding cross-national…
Furthest-right subjects
History
The history of African slavery in Latin America from the fifteenth century to the final abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. LEC. GRD. Fall.
History
This lecture course offers a comprehensive survey of the history of Nazi Germany from early pre-fascist movements before World War I to the final ignominious collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945. LEC. GRD. Spring.
History
The establishment of the Dutch settlements and the apartheid system, African responses to European domination, and the collapse of apartheid and the emergence of a multi-racial South Africa. LEC. GRD. Spring.
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 60.8 to 64.9; 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 Miami by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 23.8% | 21 | view |
| Sociology | 7.6% | 92 | view |
| Religious Studies | 4.7% | 107 | view |
| Political Science | 3.0% | 230 | view |
| Anthropology | 2.9% | 70 | view |
| History | 2.5% | 157 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 2.2% | 45 | view |
| Philosophy | 2.0% | 102 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 1.8% | 163 | view |
| Psychology | 0.8% | 119 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0.8% | 132 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 65 | 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 Miami | mean_bias_score | 62.9 | 60.8 – 64.9 | 1,303 | 39 |
| 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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