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Boston College · Ethnic & African American Studies

33.3% of Boston College's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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Boston College: 33.3% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
13%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
16 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

AADS 4440 · Psychology of Colorism and Anti-Black Racism79

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course will examine how individual, institutional, and structural level factors reproduce and reinforce white supremacy. Specifically, we will investigate anti-Black racism and colorism as it functions as a facet of white supremacy in…

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AADS 3350 · Black Futures75

Ethnic & African American Studies

Alicia Wormsley's billboard installation declared "There are Black people in the future." This course considers the ways visions of futurity have fueled the resistance of communities of the African diaspora against racial exclusion and…

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AADS 2120 · Black Deutschland: Germany and the African Diaspora72

Ethnic & African American Studies

Though Germany has long conceived of itself as a white nation, it has been a temporary and permanent home for people of African descent since the Middle Ages. And white Germanophone authors from Franz Kafka to Gnter Grass have celebrated…

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Furthest right

None. Boston College Ethnic & African American Studies has 16 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
Boston College · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share33.3—48—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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