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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

13%Far left92–100

49%Left75–91

35%Center-left59–74

3%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

148 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

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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AFRS 175 · Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as HIST 175 ) This course critically explores the history and politics of South Africa in the twentieth century through the prism of the life, politics, and experiences of one of its most iconic…

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AFRS 361 · The Global Haitian Revolution100

Ethnic & African American Studies

1 unit(s) (Same as INTL 361 and POLI 361 ) This seminar works through the essential contours of CLR James' The Black Jacobins, which offers a powerful transnational vision of revolutionary change by reconsidering the global "Age of…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Vassar College Ethnic & African American Studies has 145 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Vassar College · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	42.9	—	252	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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