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University of Southern California · Women's & Gender Studies

10.7% of University of Southern California's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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University of Southern California: 10.7% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

83%Left75–91

17%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

12 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

SWMS 215gw · Introduction to Gender and Sexuality: International Perspectives83

Women's & Gender Studies

History and theory of global feminist movements; case studies in bodily autonomy; labor rights; gender justice. Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Equity in a…

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SWMS 219gp · Introduction to Feminist Theory83

Women's & Gender Studies

Emergence of feminist thought from the Enlightenment to the present; historical development of female subjectivity; advancement of women’s rights; feminisms from alternative ideological perspectives. Satisfies New General Education in…

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SWMS 221g · Introduction to Queer Theory83

Women's & Gender Studies

Genealogies of queer theory, from psychoanalytic theories to feminism and post-structuralism; evolving concepts of gender; relation to social justice, resistance and power. Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Southern California Women's & Gender Studies has 12 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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 Southern California · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	10.7	—	28	—
Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	34.5	33.0 – 36.0	3,812	—

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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