Economics
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Prerequisite: ECON 100, ECON 180, or ECON 180A. A critical examination of the causes and consequences of racial disparities in valued life-course outcomes in America. More than 50 years have elapsed since…
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Washington and Lee University · Economics
4.1% of Washington and Lee University's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.
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Where Economics courses fall
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
25%Center-right26–41
25%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Economics
Prerequisite: ECON 100, ECON 101, ECON 180, or ECON 180A. A study of the economics of cities. Students discuss why cities exist, what determines city growth, and how firms make city location decisions. We then shift our focus to within-city…
Economics
Prerequisite: ECON 100, ECON 101, ECON 180, or ECON 180A. Students explore how economic theory and analysis can be applied to examine the multiple roles that women play in our society. In particular, we examine linkages and changes in…
Furthest-right subjects
Economics
FDR: SS4 Social Science - Group 4 Distribution Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Prerequisite: instructor consent. Social stratification touches every aspect of life, and South Asia's traditional caste structure is a special case: this…
Economics
Prerequisite: ECON 100, ECON 180, or ECON 180A. Why were many Latin American countries, which started with levels of development similar to those of the U.S. and Canada, not able to keep up? This course reviews the historic and contemporary…
Economics
Prerequisite: ECON 100, ECON 101, ECON 180, or ECON 180A. The course is an applied public finance and policy course that focuses on current policy debates. While the topics are updated with each offering, students in this course examine…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington and Lee University · Economics | bias_left_share | 4.1 | — | 49 | — |
| Economics | bias_left_share | 1.5 | 1.3 – 1.8 | 8,432 | — |
- 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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