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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Ethnic & African American Studies

17.6% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 17.6% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies 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

6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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AFST 313 · Social Context of African American Health70

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course begins with the African context and imposition of chattel slavery. To that extent, the course examines social, cultural and historical factors affecting the health status of African Americans to the present era. It explores a…

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AFST 322 · Race, Gender, and Medicine70

Ethnic & African American Studies

How has the medical industrial complex treated people of color, women, and sexual minorities? We will learn about the history of medical racism and sexism starting with slavery and finish by consideration of present-day challenges to…

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AFST 354 · Black Men in U.S. Society64

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course examines the literature and unique lived experiences of African American men as they seek personal, political, and creative expression. Additionally, this course centers on the ways in which Black boys and men negotiate and…

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Furthest right

None. University of Tennessee-Knoxville Ethnic & African American Studies has 6 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	17.6	—	34	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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