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Washington and Lee University · Ethnic & African American Studies

17.6% of Washington and Lee University'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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Washington and Lee University: 17.6% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

40%Left75–91

40%Center-left59–74

20%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 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.

Furthest-left subjects

LACS 265 · Rise Up! Indigenous Poetry and Resistance in the Hemispheric Americas83

Ethnic & African American Studies

SPAN 265 FDR: HL What, if anything, can poetry do in the face of injustice? How, if at all, can it influence shared experience? And in what ways can it inflect, and perhaps even constitute, identity, whether individual or collective? To…

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AFCA 266 · Introduction to African American Literature80

Ethnic & African American Studies

ENGL 266 FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Same as ENGL 266. This course offers an introduction to African American literature from the 1700s to the present. We will ground our inquiry across…

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AFCA 346 · Early African American Print Culture67

Ethnic & African American Studies

FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. Same as ENGL 346. This course offers an examination of the early African American print…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Washington and Lee University Ethnic & African American Studies has 4 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
Washington and Lee University · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	17.6	—	17	—
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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