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Barnard College's course descriptions average 67.0 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Barnard College reads 0.6 points further right.

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Barnard College: 67.0 (likely range 65.9 to 68.1) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

2%Far left92–100

15%Left75–91

79%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

175 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.

Furthest left

WMST GU4210 · BLACK GEOGRAPHIES94

Women's & Gender Studies

Far from obvious renderings of place, maps are spatial arguments about who belongs where and how living should be defined. This course approaches place as something that is contested daily in the U.S. through the struggle of who gets to lay…

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WMST GU4235 · Indigenous Feminisms92

Women's & Gender Studies

Indigenous women, queers, trans- and Two Spirit people have been at the forefront of activism and resistance to state incursion into Indigenous lands and waters. This was evident most recently at Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Kanaka Maoli…

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WMST GU4350 · Performing feminist activisms in Contemporary Latin92

Women's & Gender Studies

America. 4 points. This course explores different ways in which feminist artists and activists use performance to spark social change in Latin America. Using feminism and performance studies as critical lenses, this course addresses how…

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Furthest right

None. Barnard College has 175 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 65.9 to 68.1; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

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.

Barnard College by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	47.4%	78	view
Anthropology	33.3%	36	view
Sociology	32%	75	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	24.5%	49	view
Religious Studies	21.1%	57	view
History	19.1%	162	view
Art & Art History	16.7%	72	view
English & Comparative Literature	12.6%	151	view
Political Science	11.3%	80	view
Philosophy	3.9%	77	view
Economics	3.1%	65	view
Psychology	1.9%	106	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
Barnard College	mean_bias_score	67.0	65.9 – 68.1	1,008	175
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.

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