Women's & Gender Studies
Pr. WMST 2100 . Perspectives on feminist theory, with emphasis on intersections of race, class, sexual orientation, and gender as they affect women's position in culture.
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Auburn University
Auburn University's course descriptions average 64 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Auburn University reads 3.5 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest left
Art & Art History
Pr. ( ARTS 2100 and ARTS 2150 ) or Departmental approval. Study of the role of visual imagery in inscribing and. challenging racial hierarchies in the history of art.
Women's & Gender Studies
Perspectives on feminist theory, with emphasis on intersections of race, class, sexual orientation, and gender as they affect women's position in culture.
Furthest right
None. Auburn University has 4 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.
Why this number, in plain words
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 61.5 to 66.5; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Only 4 of Auburn University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
- Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Auburn University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 40% | 5 | view |
| Art & Art History | 1.5% | 67 | view |
| Political Science | 0.8% | 124 | view |
| Anthropology | 0% | 32 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 54 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0% | 102 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 0% | 1 | view |
| History | 0% | 115 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 44 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 89 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 4 | view |
| Sociology | 0% | 49 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn University | mean_bias_score | 64 | 61.5 – 66.5 | 686 | 4 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |
- Formula
- SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
- Interval
- normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.