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Vassar College · Ethnic & African American Studies

42.9% of Vassar College's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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Vassar College: 42.9% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

5%Far left92–100
26%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
108 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

AFRS 110 · Prison Abolition and Black Liberation100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course examines regimes of imprisonment and state violence that spawn carceral structures and the strategies of resistance racialized captives have used to disrupt and dismantle them. By calling into…

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AMST 208 · Demilitarizing the Pacific94

Ethnic & African American Studies

1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 208 ) The Pacific euphemistically called "America's Lake" has been a site of US empire building and Indigenous and Asian resistance against US military expansion. This course examines demilitarization movements in…

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ASIA 208 · Demilitarizing the Pacific94

Ethnic & African American Studies

1 unit(s) (Same as AMST 208 ) The Pacific euphemistically called "America's Lake" has been a site of US empire building and Indigenous and Asian resistance against US military expansion. This course examines demilitarization movements in…

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Furthest right

None. Vassar College Ethnic & African American Studies has 108 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
Vassar College · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share42.9—252—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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