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American University · Ethnic & African American Studies

25% of American 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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American University: 25% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

33%Far left92–100

67%Left75–91

0%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

3 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

AFAM 346 · Rebellion and Revolution in the Caribbean100

Ethnic & African American Studies

The Caribbean has been a crucial site of violent colonial displacement, migration, and coercion of peoples from around the globe. It has also witnessed many collectively organized movements of racialized exploited people to challenge their…

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AFAM 320 · Black Women in American Black Freedom Struggles83

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course, spanning the period from the late nineteenth century to the present, centers the activism of Black women in the United States and the multiple ways they challenged inequality and injustice in the arenas of race, class, gender,…

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AFAM 220 · History of African American Women78

Ethnic & African American Studies

From Mumbet, the first Black women to petition for and win her freedom in a court of law, to Septima Clark, a civil rights activist, Black women have worked tirelessly to build America while dismantling systems of oppression. Although…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. American University Ethnic & African American Studies has 3 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
American University · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	25	—	12	—
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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