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University of Minnesota's course descriptions average 69.2 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Minnesota reads 1.7 points further left.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

University of Minnesota: 69.2 (likely range 67.8 to 70.6) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

2%Far left92–100

29%Left75–91

64%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

147 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

AFRO 3125W · Black Visions of Liberation: Ella, Martin, Malcolm, and the Radical Transformation of U.S. Democracy92

Ethnic & African American Studies

Course on the critical thought of Black intellectual-activists and others enmeshed in the struggles for the radical transformation of U.S. democracy. Introduces the following three leaders and activists--Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Jr.,…

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CSCL 3425W · Critical Theory and Social Change92

English & Comparative Literature

This course introduces students to influential thinkers in the field of critical theory, broadly conceived. Critical theory is similar to philosophy because it asks big questions that stretch the boundaries of human knowledge. But it is…

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POL 4463 · The Cuban Revolution Through the Words of Cuban Revolutionaries92

Political Science

Why do policy makers in Washington, D.C. continue to rail against the Cuban Revolution? Despite their best efforts, both Republican and Democratic administrations, the Revolution is still in place after six decades. How to explain? This is…

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Furthest right

None. University of Minnesota has 147 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 67.8 to 70.6; 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 Minnesota by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	33.8%	65	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	25.2%	143	view
Sociology	19.3%	119	view
Political Science	13.1%	145	view
English & Comparative Literature	8.2%	183	view
History	7.9%	190	view
Anthropology	7.7%	104	view
Religious Studies	5.6%	36	view
Art & Art History	3.6%	138	view
Philosophy	2.5%	81	view
Economics	0%	97	view
Psychology	0%	112	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 Minnesota	mean_bias_score	69.2	67.8 – 70.6	1,413	147
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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