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Boston College · History

14.8% of Boston College's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Boston College: 14.8% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
78%Center-left59–74
22%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
18 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIST 1822 · Core Topics: Europe from the Outside In73

History

The story of how Europe emerged as a cultural-political entity is inextricably intertwined with the groups of people it feared, persecuted, and ridiculed. In this course, we will examine the history of Europe from the perspective of Jews,…

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HIST 4551 · American Hate72

History

Fulfills the US History requirement for History Majors Racism is, unfortunately, as American as apple pie and baseball. This course explores the roots of racial hatred and the changes in American racism over time. In addition to studying…

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HIST 1722 · The Just City: Global Perspectives on Power and Social Difference70

History

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both HIST1722 and ENVS1737. How can we create just cities? In an urbanizing world, contemporary cities are characterized by the production and reproduction of…

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Furthest right

None. Boston College History has 18 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 · Historybias_left_share14.8—122—
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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