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University of Virginia · History

2.2% of University of Virginia's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of Virginia: 2.2% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
89%Center-left59–74
11%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
9 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIUS 3132 · Race, Gender, and Empire: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism72

History

In this course we emphasize how U.S. power has been exercised in the world with focus on intersections of cultural, political, and economic power. We analyze how power is produced and contested through language and media, and how hegemonic…

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HIST 2301 · Democracy in Danger67

History

Democracy is in trouble today. Why? This course explores the growing threats to democracy in the United States and globally. Topics include: the impact of xenophobia, racism and radical nationalism on democracy; the rise of far-right media;…

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HIUS 6018 · America and the Sixties63

History

This course will address those events and people crucial to understanding 1960’s America. From the promise of a Kennedy presidency to the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson to the quagmire of the Vietnam War, participants will consider not…

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Furthest right

None. University of Virginia History has 9 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 Virginia · Historybias_left_share2.2—404—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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