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University of Texas at Austin · Ethnic & African American Studies

8.8% of University of Texas at Austin'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 Texas at Austin: 8.8% 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
29%Left75–91
71%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
24 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

AFR 340N · African Queer Studies83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Same as Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 3). Examines the development of African queer studies as the interdisciplinary study of sexuality on the African continent, and its impact on the academic and activist realm. Focus on…

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MAS 320G · Native American Women's History83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Same as American Studies 370 (Topic 75), History 365G (Topic 20), and Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 98). Investigate the histories of Native American women to reaffirm and reclaim their place and role in the histories of Native…

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AAS 320K · Theorizing the Human79

Ethnic & African American Studies

Same as American Studies 370 (Topic 70) and Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 77). Trace the continuities and transformations in constructions of populations as more or less human, from settler-colonial conquest to the post-Trump era.…

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Furthest right

None. University of Texas at Austin Ethnic & African American Studies has 24 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 Texas at Austin · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share8.8—274—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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