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Wake Forest University · Political Science

2.4% of Wake Forest University'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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Wake Forest University: 2.4% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

14%Far left92–100
43%Left75–91
29%Center-left59–74
14%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
7 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

POL 273 · Marx, Marxism and Post-Marxism.100

Political Science

Examines Marx's early humanistic writings, his later philosophy, the vicissitudes of 20th-century Marxism and attempts to reorient Marx's theory in light of developments in contemporary political thought and practice.

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WGS 224 · Readings in Queer Theology.83

Political Science

This seminar-syle reading course surveys classic and new works in queer theology. Queer theology transgresses dominant constructions of gender identity and sexuality; and as scuh, it can be seen as an expression of the Christian gospel that…

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WGS 230 · Studies in Gender and Literature.78

Political Science

Addresses ways in which gender and literacy practices intersect in various cultures and historical periods. Attention will be paid to the role of literature in formulating, subverting, or resisting gender norms. May be repeated for credit…

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Furthest-right subjects

SOC 365 · Technology, Culture, and Change.42

Political Science

Examines the interrelated forces that shape change in organizations and societies; from the emergence of capitalist markets to the systems, controls, and information revolution of the 21st century. Also listed as CGS 365.

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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
Wake Forest University · Political Sciencebias_left_share2.4—85—
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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