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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Religious Studies

1.3% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 1.3% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
17%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
17%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
33%Far right0–8
6 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

REST 350 · Black Power to Black Lives Matter in African American Religious Thought83

Religious Studies

Historical and critical examination of the formation and development of African American religious thought in conjunction with, and critical of, Black freedom movements from the Black Power Movement to the Black Lives Matter Movement.

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REST 343 · Religion, Nature, and Ethics67

Religious Studies

An investigation of the efforts of religious communities in addressing environmental issues around the world with special emphasis on themes of environmental justice.

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REST 363 · African Religions in the Western Imagination67

Religious Studies

Considers African religions both as projections of the Western colonial imagination and as independent cultural phenomena. A wide variety of African and Euro-Western sources will be examined.(Same as AFST 363 )

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Furthest-right subjects

REST 386 · Voices of the Holocaust0

Religious Studies

Historical underpinnings of Nazi genocides such as that of the Jewish people, gypsies, and homosexuals. The economic, religious, social, and philosophical trends supporting massive genocide.(Same as JST 386 *.)Satisfies Volunteer Core Requirement: (GCI)

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REST 481 · Public Health in Holocaust Ghettos0

Religious Studies

Explores a myriad of public health issues connected with incarceration in ghettos during World War II. Students will engage in research on the topic using primary source materials including oral histories, documents, and other available…

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REST 355 · Topics in North American Religion27

Religious Studies

Focused exploration of selected issues and trends that involve intersections between religion, culture, and politics in North American history, such as religion and media, the New Religious Right, religion and war, and others.Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.

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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 Tennessee-Knoxville · Religious Studiesbias_left_share1.3—79—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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