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Wesleyan University · Ethnic & African American Studies

54.2% of Wesleyan 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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Wesleyan University: 54.2% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

10%Far left92–100

31%Left75–91

59%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

83 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

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AFAM 222 · Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital100

Ethnic & African American Studies

This class explores Black women's fiction as a mode of critique and intervention into Black Americans' complicated relationships with social and economic capital in the wake of US chattel slavery. How do Black people negotiate the…

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AFAM 277 · Defining Black Repair96

Ethnic & African American Studies

Black Reparations is a concept that refers to claims for reparations made by African descendants in the United States as defined in Boris Bittker's (1973) "The Case for Black Reparations." However, the term is not exclusive to the…

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AFAM 115F · Freedom School (FYS)94

Ethnic & African American Studies

From the point of view of the U.S. nation-state, education has always been a hegemonic means to control knowledge, to calibrate unequal forms of citizenship, and to promote the social reproduction of power. Yet as W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in…

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Furthest right

None. Wesleyan University Ethnic & African American Studies has 83 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Wesleyan University · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	54.2	—	153	—
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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