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University of Minnesota · Anthropology

7.7% of University of Minnesota's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of Minnesota: 7.7% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

13%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
7%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
15 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.

Furthest-left subjects

ANTH 5412 · Comparative Indigenous Feminisms100

Anthropology

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the inter connections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have…

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ANTH 4101 · Decolonizing Archives92

Anthropology

Archives are not neutral. In order to decolonize them, scholars in anthropology and other disciplines must first understand the ways in which Western settler values have structured them. Who decides acquisition policy? How are items…

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ANTH 3028 · Historical Archaeology88

Anthropology

In this course, we will explore the theories and methods of historical archaeology - such as material culture studies, landscape perspectives, archival, and oral historical interpretation - as a means of intervening in contemporary…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 4344 · Europe and its Margins12

Anthropology

This course explores some of the forms of human imagining (literary, artistic, political, social scientific) engendered by the notoriously hard to define entity known as "Europe." It does so by focusing on regions and populations that have…

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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 Minnesota · Anthropologybias_left_share7.7—104—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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