Bureau of Disruption

All schools · Liberal arts college

Barnard College · Philosophy

3.9% of Barnard College's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

0%20%
Barnard College: 3.9% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy 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
3 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

See it for yourself

FramingSubject

Furthest left

PHIL UN3856 · Political Realism and Social Injustice64

Philosophy

Rectifying injustice remains a central motivation for social and political thought. The aim of a theory of justice or injustice is often to guide us in dealing with the grave wrongs in our social world. But how should philosophy support the…

See it for yourself →

PHIL UN3768 · ALLIES, ADVOCATES, ADVERSARIES62

Philosophy

This course will survey political and epistemological questions that are centered around living in a society with oppression, including: What is oppression? What does it mean to be an ally? When is it right to speak for others and advocate…

See it for yourself →

PHIL UN3756 · Critical Philosophy of Race: What is Race?60

Philosophy

This course is a philosophical examination of the meaning and significance of the concept of race. The course will chiefly aim to answer: What do we mean by the term "race"? And why is it often tied to the existence of racism? From where…

See it for yourself →

Furthest right

None. Barnard College Philosophy has 3 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 · Philosophybias_left_share3.9—77—
Philosophybias_left_share2.72.4 – 3.17,780—
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.

Ask a question about Barnard College · Make a school card