Political Science
Feminism is often recognized as a political movement. But is there a feminist way of thinking about politics? In this course, we'll investigate the core premises, provocations, proposals, and tensions of feminism as they relate to…
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Barnard College · Political Science
11.3% of Barnard College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
0%35%
Where Political Science courses fall
0%Far left92–100
32%Left75–91
45%Center-left59–74
14%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
5%Far right0–8
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
Political Science
Prerequisites: Admission by application through the Barnard Political Science Department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Requires POLS 1011 (Political Theory) or equivalent. This colloquium examines how the law can participate in…
Political Science
Not offered during 2023-2024 academic year. Prerequisites: POLS W1013 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Advanced political theory colloquium…
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
This course examines the role of race in American politics and the political behavior of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Topics will include, but are not limited to, minority political participation, segregation,…
Political Science
The causes and consequences of nationalism. Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnard College · Political Science | bias_left_share | 11.3 | — | 80 | — |
| Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | 4.8 – 5.6 | 12,053 | — |
- 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.