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University of Virginia · Political Science

1.3% of University of Virginia's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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University of Virginia: 1.3% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

4%Far left92–100

19%Left75–91

27%Center-left59–74

31%Center42–58

8%Center-right26–41

8%Right9–25

4%Far right0–8

26 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.

Furthest-left subjects

PLPT 4031 · Marxist Theories100

Political Science

Studies the basic political, sociological and philosophical ideas advanced by Marx and Engels, and their historical backgrounds; the later developments and varieties of Marxist thought in the twentieth century; and the principal critic, and…

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PLPT 4200 · Feminist Political Theory83

Political Science

Studies modern and contemporary feminist theories of political life. Prerequisite: One previous course in political theory or instructor permission.

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PLAC 5623 · Inclusive Cities82

Political Science

This course will help you identify global segregation trends in cities and the role of planning and designing interventions to reduce inequality and segregation towards disadvantaged socio-economic groups, racial minorities, people with…

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Furthest-right subjects

PLCP 4180 · Politics of the Holocaust0

Political Science

An introduction of major competing explanations for the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews, and critical consideration of those theories. Also examines other major genocides of the 20th century.

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PLCP 3330 · Politics of Latin America22

Political Science

This course provides an overview of politics in Latin America. Topics include the organization of the New World colonies, the legacies of the colonial period for development, the nature of political competition in Latin America’s newly…

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PLCP 4111 · States and Markets25

Political Science

The course begins with an introduction to texts of classical liberal political economy and then examines both historical and theoretical scholarship on the emergence of markets in Europe from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. A…

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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 Virginia · Political Science	bias_left_share	1.3	—	231	—
Political Science	bias_left_share	5.2	4.8 – 5.6	12,053	—

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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