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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

4%Far left92–100

51%Left75–91

28%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

3%Right9–25

11%Far right0–8

75 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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Framing Subject

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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

AAS 330I · Asian Diaspora on Indigenous Lands92

Ethnic & African American Studies

Same as Geography 328L. Explore Indigenous and Asian entanglements and solidarities on Turtle Island (North America) and the Pacific. Examine settler colonialism, racial capitalism, war and militarism, racism and power, and environmental…

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AFR 340N · African Queer Studies92

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 History92

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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Furthest-right subjects

AFR 340D · Apartheid: South African History0

Ethnic & African American Studies

Same as History 364P and Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 42). A study of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of South Africa to contextualize the rise of apartheid. Primarily focuses on the period since 1948 from the…

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AFR 350P · Urban Slavery in the Americas0

Ethnic & African American Studies

Same as American Studies 370 (Topic 55), History 347N, and Latin American Studies 366 (Topic 36). Examines urban slavery in the Americas. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Only one of the following may be counted: African and…

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AFR 350T · Domestic Slave Trade0

Ethnic & African American Studies

Same as History 350R (Topic 24). Explores the inner workings of the domestic slave trade from the perspectives of slaveholders, speculators, and the enslaved. Analysis of maps, letters, diaries, newspaper advertisements, and legislation…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Texas at Austin · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	8.8	—	274	—
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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