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University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill · Religious Studies

1.9% of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 1.9% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

47%Left75–91

47%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

7%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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Framing Subject

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

RELI 415 · Teaching the Bible in Public Education83

Religious Studies

This course explores the challenges, ethical questions, and opportunities inherent in teaching biblical literature within public educational settings--both secondary and higher-ed. It also equips students to make informed decisions on how…

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RELI 723 · Critical Approaches to Religion and Culture83

Religious Studies

Graduate standing in religious studies or permission of the instructor. Exploration of various forms of contemporary critical thought (including gender theory, critical race theory, and postcolonial studies) in order to assess the value of…

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RELI 823 · Postcolonial Approaches to the Study of Religion78

Religious Studies

Permission of the instructor. An examination of major themes in contemporary postcolonial thought, and the application of this work to the study of religion.

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Furthest-right subjects

RELI 164 · Heresy and Inquisition: Religion, Ethics, Marginalization8

Religious Studies

During the Middle Ages and the early modern era, various inquisitions used legal inquiry and torture to determine the boundaries of heresy. This course surveys the influence of these regimes on the doctrine, practices, and morality of…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	1.9	—	206	—
Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.6	4.1 – 5.1	7,282	—

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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