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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Political Science

2.9% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 2.9% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
33%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

POLS 413 · Race, Ethnicity, and Politics60

Political Science

Analysis of ethnoracial dynamics of politics and policies, considering how ethnoracial groups shape political processes and how power and policy outcomes are racialized.Grading Restriction: Letter grade only.

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POLS 456 · Development and Decay of Democracy in Latin America60

Political Science

Examines the evolution of power in Latin America from authoritarian dominance toward democracy and subsequent episodes of democratic erosion. Considers how historical and contemporary dynamics such as economic crisis, US influence, military…

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POLS 414 · Gender and Politics58

Political Science

Analysis of the gendered dynamics of politics and policies to consider how gender and its intersection with other dimensions of social and cultural difference shape political processes and outcomes.Grading Restriction: Letter grade only.

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Furthest right

None. University of Tennessee-Knoxville Political Science 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 Tennessee-Knoxville · Political Sciencebias_left_share2.9—103—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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