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University of Minnesota · History

7.9% of University of Minnesota'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 Minnesota: 7.9% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
13%Left75–91
80%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
15 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 3875W · Comparative Race and Ethnicity in US History86

History

This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America to learn from and engage with what historians enmeshed in ethnic studies do. These historians examine the systematic and coordinated exercises of power called race…

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HIST 3435 · History of South Africa from 1910: Anti-Racism, Youth Politics, Pandemics & Gender (Based Violence)75

History

We are all living in extraordinary times. But what does that mean? In South Africa, we have seen the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented to control it causing massive social upheaval and personal distress. It has forced the…

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HIST 3348 · Women and Gender in Modern America73

History

This course covers how gender and gender inequality have mattered to the US economy, politics, and cultural life. Themes include: femininity and masculinity as disciplining people, the intersection of gender with whiteness and race, the…

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Furthest right

None. University of Minnesota History has 15 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 Minnesota · Historybias_left_share7.9—190—
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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