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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University of Minnesota
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.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
7%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
2%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
2%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
English & Comparative Literature
In 1993, Mark Dery coined the term Afrofuturism to describe "[s]peculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth- century technoculture - and, more generally,…
Political Science
Twenty five years ago, Russia appeared to be democratizing and was even on friendly relations with the US and NATO. Now Vladimir Putin runs the state with the FSB (KGB), and US-Russian relations are at their worst point since the 1970s.…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Between 1941 and 1944, thousands of executions occurred in the Soviet republics. More than 80% of the victims were shot, giving the name "Holocaust by Bullets" to the extermination of Jews in the East. This course explores the history and…
History
Study of 1933-1945 extermination of six million Jews and others by Nazi Germany on basis of race. European anti-Semitism. Implications of social Darwinism and race theory. Perpetrators, victims, onlookers, resistance. Theological responses of Jews and Christians.
History
Comprehensive exploration of Third Reich. Students will examine How the Nazis came to power, transformations of 1930s, imposition of racial politics against Jews/others, nature of total war. Students read historical accounts, memoirs, state documents, view films.
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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