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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

3%Far left92–100
24%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
21%Center42–58
12%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
34 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

THEO 44108 · Feminist Interpretation of Bible100

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 Theologies88

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 20674 · God & Slavery in the Americas85

Religious Studies

More than a century before African slaves were trafficked to the Virginia colony in 1619, Christopher Columbus transported captured indigenous peoples to Spain from the New World. The dispossession and enslavement of non-Europeans in the…

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Furthest-right subjects

THEO 44291 · Middle Easter Christianity as a Minority under Islam: Politics and Religion in Historical Context20

Religious Studies

This course provides a historical study of Middle Eastern Christianity as a minority people focusing on 7th-14th. The Period provides insights into ME Christianity in transition from an experience of intellectual and material richness…

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THEO 40208 · Catholicism and The City: Good Urbanism as Human Flourishing, Env. Stewardship, and Sacramentality27

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 Today30

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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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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