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University of Notre Dame · Religious Studies

2.5% of University of Notre Dame'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 Notre Dame: 2.5% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

8%Far left92–100
8%Left75–91
58%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
17%Center-right26–41
8%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
12 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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

Furthest left

THEO 44108 · Feminist Interpretation of Bible94

Religious Studies

This course introduces and equips you how to do feminist/gender critical biblical interpretations for your communities of faith. This subject is grounded in the ecumenical belief that all humankind are equal, and we worship an inclusive and…

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THEO 83837 · Liberation Theologies79

Religious Studies

This course introduces students to classic and contemporary works in several globally significant traditions of liberation theology. It highlights similarities, differences, and interconnections between these traditions, briefly treats…

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THEO 20814 · Theology & Racial Justice73

Religious Studies

This course explores the topics of race and racial justice (in a particularly American context) in conversation with Christian theology. While it is initially tempting to reduce this conversation to identification of theological grounds for…

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Furthest right

THEO 40208 · Catholicism and The City: Good Urbanism as Human Flourishing, Env. Stewardship, and Sacramentality25

Religious Studies

Catholicism and The City is an Architecture course intended primarily but not exclusively for undergraduate and graduate architecture students, and for undergraduate students from other disciplines. Viewed through the lenses of Catholic…

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THEO 24857 · Marriage and Family Today31

Religious Studies

The course will consider marriage and family as the natural reality, which allows us to understand its institutionalization and marriage as a sacrament. Therefore, assessing the social and ecclesial discussion, the course is aimed at…

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THEO 44850 · Christian Marriage Today33

Religious Studies

Taught at a host institution. This course explores matrimony and the family as a natural reality which permits us to understand it both as an institution and a sacrement. This class focuses on both social and eclesial discussion directed…

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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 Notre Dame · Religious Studiesbias_left_share2.5—365—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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