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Vassar College · Political Science

32.4% of Vassar College'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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Vassar College: 32.4% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

15%Far left92–100
55%Left75–91
18%Center-left59–74
10%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
3%Far right0–8
40 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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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

POLI 284 · Temporality, Ecology, and Technoscience100

Political Science

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as STS 284 ) Drawing from decolonial ecologies, queer ecofeminisms, and other critical, ecosophical perspectives, this theory course engages the politics of ecology and technology insofar as these…

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POLI 361 · The Global Haitian Revolution100

Political Science

1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 361 and INTL 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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POLI 276 · Contemporary Marxist Theories96

Political Science

1 unit(s) The capitalism that Karl Marx critically analyzed continues to rule the earth and its population. However, dramatic shifts in production, finance, technology, politics, culture, indeed in the planetary environment itself, have…

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Furthest-right subjects

POLI 348 · Seminar in Democracy and Power in America8

Political Science

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) An examination of tensions and adjustments between democratic ideals and the structures and practices of political and economic power in the United States. Topic for 2024/25a: Democracy and Power: The…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Vassar College · Political Sciencebias_left_share32.4—74—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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