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Baylor University · History

1.0% of Baylor University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Baylor University: 1.0% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
10%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
20%Far right0–8
10 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

HIS 2345 · African American History to 187067

History

An introduction to the beliefs, policies, events, and debates that shaped the history and legacy of people in the United States who descended from West and Central Africa through the ratification of the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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HIS 3376 · The United States, 1877-192067

History

Pre-requisite(s): Six semester hours of history or consent of instructor An overview of U.S. history from the end of Reconstruction through the First World War. Emphasis on industrialization, urbanization, immigration, Western migration,…

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HIS 3377 · The United States since 192067

History

Pre-requisite(s): Six semester hours of history or consent of instructor An overview of U.S. history from the end of World War 1 to the present. Emphasis on the post-Progressive decade, the Great Depression, the New Deal, domestic…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIS 3370 · Slavery in Film0

History

An overview of the history of slavery in the United States and how that history has been portrayed in feature films, television series, and documentaries in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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HIS 4342 · The Holocaust0

History

Cross-listed as REL 3348 Pre-requisite(s): Nine semester hours of history or consent of the instructor An in-depth exploration of the history of Nazi Germany’s systematic mass murder of European Jews and other minorities during World War 2.…

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HIS 3337 · Nineteenth-Century Europe27

History

Pre-requisite(s): Six semester hours of history or consent of instructor An overview of the political, social, and economic development of the European nations from roughly the Congress of Vienna to the outbreak of the First World War.…

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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
Baylor University · Historybias_left_share1.0—104—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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