History
Same as Core Texts and Ideas 335M, European Studies 346 (Topic 30), and Philosophy 342M. Introduction to the writings of Karl Marx as well as to those of his intellectual successors in Europe and around the globe in the nineteenth and…
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University of Texas at Austin · History
0.8% of University of Texas at Austin's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
12%Far left92–100
24%Left75–91
12%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
6%Center-right26–41
18%Right9–25
15%Far right0–8
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
History
Same as Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 387 (Topic 3). Explore the complicated nature of communist rule in Eastern Europe in its many forms, from Poland in the North to Yugoslavia in the South. Examine the variety of lived…
History
Same as Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 386 (Topic 5). Examine Stalinism as a complex historical, ideological, and cultural phenomenon that crucially shaped Russia's destiny from the twentieth century to the present moment.…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Same as European Studies 346 (Topic 53) and French Civilization 340D. Explore the Nazi occupation of France and Vichy's collaboration. Consider the devastating fall of the French Republic, the organization of Vichy France, Vichy's…
History
Same as American Studies 321 (Topic 4) and Jewish Studies 365 (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 321 (Topic 4), 370 (Topic: America and the Holocaust), History…
History
Same as European Studies 348 (Topic 10), German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 361V, and Government 368V. Explore fundamental questions about the unique role of culture in modern democracies and dictatorships by taking an overview of…
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 · History | bias_left_share | 0.8 | — | 249 | — |
| History | bias_left_share | 8.3 | 7.9 – 8.7 | 17,232 | — |
- 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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