Anthropology
Paris in French Revolution, 1871 Paris Commune, and May 1968. Barcelona in Catalan nationalism, Spanish Revolution. Political ideologies of revolution, theories of power, forms of self-organization, and protest tactics. Role of art,…
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Vanderbilt University · Anthropology
4.1% of Vanderbilt University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.
0%45%
Where Anthropology courses fall
0%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
48%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
15%Center-right26–41
4%Right9–25
0%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.
Furthest-left subjects
Anthropology
Present-day global indigenous identities. Historical processes of colonialism, displacement, marginalization, and forced assimilation. Indigenous resistance and agency, indigenous social media, experiences of urban indigeneities, indigenous…
Anthropology
Role of theatre in social justice and social change movements, including Playback Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed. Conducting improv theatre in class or in collaboration with a local / campus organization. Not open to students who have…
Furthest-right subjects
Anthropology
Humans as study subjects in research. Human complexities and experimentation; eugenics; and ethical, legal, and social issues of research. [3] (SBS) (CORE E) (LE SBS)
Anthropology
Perspectives on globalization based on ethnographic case studies. The impact of new technologies on native cultures; different cultural meanings of global commodities; creation of new diaspora cultures; effects of neoliberal reforms on…
Anthropology
Politics and religion in Classic Maya culture, 100-1000 C.E. Sources and symbols of power, ritual life, and metaphysical underpinnings of hierarchy and cosmology. Relationships among ideology, religion, and politics. Repeat credit for…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University · Anthropology | bias_left_share | 4.1 | — | 123 | — |
| Anthropology | bias_left_share | 10.4 | 9.8 – 11.1 | 9,234 | — |
- 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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