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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Psychology

3.1% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 3.1% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 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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FramingSubject

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

PSYC 485 · Special Topics in Psychology83

Psychology

Intensive analysis of special topics, such as sustainability psychology or intersectionality.Satisfies Volunteer Core Requirement: (WC)Satisfies General Education Requirement through the 2021-2022 academic catalog: (WC)Repeatability: May be…

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PSYC 482 · Topics in Psychology75

Psychology

Intensive analysis of special topics, such as sustainability psychology or intersectionality.Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.Credit Restriction: No more than 6 hours of PSYC 382 , PSYC 482, PSYC 485 * may be applied toward…

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PSYC 235 · Intergroup Dialogues72

Psychology

Facilitated, face-to-face dialogues on disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, and/or social class, and associated forms of power and social inequity. Students will build skills in dialogue across…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Tennessee-Knoxville Psychology has 8 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Psychologybias_left_share3.1—128—
Psychologybias_left_share2.52.2 – 2.89,330—
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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