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University of Southern California · Anthropology

0% of University of Southern California's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

0%45%
University of Southern California: 0% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
60%Left75–91
30%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
10%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
10 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.

Furthest-left subjects

ANTH 331 · Disability, Embodiment and an Ethics of Care83

Anthropology

Highlights the theoretical, intellectual and artistic intersections of anthropological theories of embodiment, disability studies/”crip theory”, critical race studies, queer theory and the arts/popular culture.

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ANTH 650 · Seminar in Ethnography and Interpretation83

Anthropology

A seminar where issues in contemporary ethnography and interpretation are discussed, grouped around a theme of current concern, such as power and resistance, colonialism, Marxist approaches, feminism, etc.

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ANTH 315gw · Native North Americans78

Anthropology

Indigenous peoples of North America: major cultural themes, contemporary issues, language revitalization, native sovereignty, environmental issues, decolonization. Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis Satisfies…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 319 · Political Anthropology of Europe33

Anthropology

Examines political systems in Europe through an anthropological lens: nationalism, gender, citizenship and race.

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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 Southern California · Anthropologybias_left_share0—104—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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