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Yale UniversityYale University's course descriptions average 68.5 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Yale University reads 1.0 points further left.
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Anthropology
A careful reading of Karl Marx's classic critique of capitalism, Capital volume 1, a work of philosophy, political economy, and critical social theory that has had a significant global readership for over 150 years. Selected readings also from Capital volumes 2 and 3.
Ethnic & African American Studies
From the crafting of the text “me too” in the United States to “not one less” in Latin America –to visibilize sexual abuse and combat feminicide respectively– multitudes of thousands have gathered in the streets and in the digital avenues…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Decolonial theory imagines a world different from the one created by the dominance of Western modernity. However, it is not necessarily obvious what Europe can contribute to this process, as the decentering of Europe and its intellectual…
English & Comparative Literature
An introduction to the literature and culture of the American South, a region of the mind identified with the former Confederate States of America and fabricated from a mix of beautiful dreams and violent nightmares, including: histories of…
Ethnic & African American Studies
An introduction to the history of southern Africa, especially South Africa. Indigenous communities; early colonial contact; the legacies of colonial rule; postcolonial mismanagement; the vagaries of the environment; the mineral revolution;…
History
This course studies Jewish political behavior in response to three key developments of the twentieth century that directly impinged upon Jews: Nazi totalitarianism resulted in the mass murder of Jews, de-colonization resulted in the Jews’…
Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.
50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.
Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 67.1 to 69.9; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 38.9% | 113 | view |
| Women's & Gender Studies | 35.7% | 28 | view |
| Anthropology | 20% | 105 | view |
| History | 18.8% | 197 | view |
| Sociology | 17.8% | 45 | view |
| Religious Studies | 10.3% | 39 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 9.7% | 267 | view |
| Art & Art History | 7.1% | 182 | view |
| Psychology | 4.8% | 104 | view |
| Philosophy | 2.9% | 70 | view |
| Political Science | 2.2% | 134 | view |
| Economics | 0.7% | 137 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | mean_bias_score | 68.5 | 67.1 – 69.9 | 1,421 | 175 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |