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University of Rochester · History

9.1% of University of Rochester'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 Rochester: 9.1% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
3 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 197 · Race & Labor in American History63

History

Race and Labor in American History will cover the various ways labor in American history is racialized to specific ethnic groups as a byproduct of migration and immigration. Often, this labor is stereotyped as these immigrants, migrants,…

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HIST 591 · PhD Readings in History: Past & Present Politics of Archaeological Practice63

History

This independent study will explore the politics of past and present archaeological practice with a specific focus on colonial and imperial approaches, their subsequent appropriations of material culture for museum, and the consequences of…

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HIST 276 · Sports in US History62

History

Recent acts of protest by high school, collegiate, and professional athletes--including, at times, a refusal to play--remind us that sports are not and have never been separate from the world of politics, nor are they isolated from social,…

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Furthest right

None. University of Rochester History has 3 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 Rochester · Historybias_left_share9.1—33—
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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