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University of Texas at Austin's course descriptions average 67.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Texas at Austin reads 0.4 points further left.

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University of Texas at Austin: 67.9 (likely range 66.2 to 69.7) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

5%Far left92–100

37%Left75–91

34%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

2%Center-right26–41

4%Right9–25

9%Far right0–8

206 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

ANT 324U · Socialism's Past and Futures100

Anthropology

Same as History 326E and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 335 (Topic 35). Examine ordinary people's experience of socialism in the Soviet Union and the plural interpretations of this experience after the USSR's collapse. Three…

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ANT 325P · Abolition Medicine100

Anthropology

Same as African and African Diaspora Studies 360M. Examine race-based diagnostics tools and treatment guidelines that reinforce antiquated and scientifically inaccurate notions of biological race. Discuss the upstream structures that enable…

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HIS 332R · Marx and Marxist Theory100

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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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

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 66.2 to 69.7; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

University of Texas at Austin by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Sociology	14.2%	120	view
Women's & Gender Studies	12.5%	40	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	8.8%	274	view
Anthropology	5%	180	view
English & Comparative Literature	1.2%	259	view
Political Science	1.0%	201	view
History	0.8%	249	view
Psychology	0.7%	153	view
Art & Art History	0.5%	188	view
Economics	0%	99	view
Philosophy	0%	92	view
Religious Studies	0%	118	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Texas at Austin	mean_bias_score	67.9	66.2 – 69.7	1,973	64
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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