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Barnard College · Anthropology

33.3% of Barnard College's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Barnard College: 33.3% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
30%Left75–91
55%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
10%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
20 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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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.

Furthest-left subjects

ANTH UN3703 · Climate Change and Colonialism88

Anthropology

In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognized colonialism's contributions to the climate crisis, citing its "historical and ongoing patterns of inequity." This was the first time that this group of climate experts…

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ANTH UN3921 · Anticolonialism83

Anthropology

Enrollment limited to 20. Through a careful exploration of the argument and style of five vivid anticolonial texts, Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj, C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins, Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, Albert Memmi's…

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ANTH UN3465 · WOMEN, GENDER POL-MUSLIM WORLD78

Anthropology

CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement Practices like veiling, gendered forms of segregation, and the honor code that are central to Western images of Muslim women are also contested issues throughout the Muslim world.…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH UN3966 · Culture and Mental Health33

Anthropology

Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Limited to juniors & seniors. This course considers mental disturbance and its relief by examining historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic and psychiatric notions of…

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ANTH BC3911 · SOCIAL CONTEXTS IMMIGRATN LAW40

Anthropology

Examines the historical and contemporary social, economic, and political factors that shape immigration law and policy along with the social consequences of those laws and policies. Addresses the development and function of immigration law…

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ANTH UN3970 · BIOL BASIS OF HUMAN VARIATION42

Anthropology

Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisites: ANEB V1010 and the instructor's permission. Prerequisites: ANEB UN1010 and the instructor's permission. Biological evidence for the modern human diversity at the molecular, phenotypical, and…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Barnard College · Anthropologybias_left_share33.3—36—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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