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Vassar College · Religious Studies

12.2% of Vassar College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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Vassar College: 12.2% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
20%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
10%Far right0–8
10 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

RELI 330 · Religion, Critical Theory and Politics85

Religious Studies

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Advanced study in selected aspects of religion and contemporary philosophical and political theory. May be taken more than once for credit when content changes. Topic for 2024/25a: Bosch's Garden of Earthly…

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RELI 245 · Making Waves: Topics in Feminist Activism83

Religious Studies

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as WFQS 245 ) Topic for 2024/25a: Feminism, Religion, and Spirituality . Feminism and religion are ordinarily understood to be at odds with one another. Religion is often coded as patriarchal and…

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RELI 256 · Theology of the Prison78

Religious Studies

1 unit(s) How might the experience of imprisonment have influenced the development of Christian ideas about the body, salvation, and justice? Does the contemporary crisis of America's "prison-industrial complex" demand new attention to this…

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Furthest-right subjects

RELI 242 · From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism8

Religious Studies

Semester Offered: Spring 1 1 unit(s) (Same as JWST 242 ) An exploration of the historical trajectory from religious to racial Jew-hatred through the study of religious, historical, political and sociological sources as well as art,…

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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 · Religious Studiesbias_left_share12.2—41—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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