History
1-3 credits. Chinese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on intellectual history and the history of Chinese Communism.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison · History
2.9% of University of Wisconsin-Madison'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
8%Far left92–100
38%Left75–91
23%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
8%Right9–25
8%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
3-4 credits. The African-descended population of the Americas is around 180 million people. Roughly two-thirds of those live outside of the United States, mostly in Brazil and the Caribbean. Provides an overview of the histories,…
History
UNITED STATES, FROM THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA TO TODAY 3-4 credits. Investigates the complex history of European and American violence and war-making through the lens of race and religion. Taking a comparative approach, analyzes several major…
Furthest-right subjects
History
3-4 credits. Background and history of World War II. Problems of peacemaking and international organizations; rise of Fascism, National Socialism, and Japanese imperialism; breaking the peace; World War II.
History
3-4 credits. Traces the formation of the states and societies that compose the contemporary Middle East. How have global phenomena, including two world wars, the Cold War, women's movements, and modern science, technology, and fossil fuels,…
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 Wisconsin-Madison · History | bias_left_share | 2.9 | — | 104 | — |
| 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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