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Boston College · Religious Studies

6.1% of Boston College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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Boston College: 6.1% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
42%Left75–91
58%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
12 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

THEO 7055 · Global Politics, Political Theology, and Ethics83

Religious Studies

This course will employ decolonial critiques, African theology, and liberation theology to examine politico- economic inequality and conflict in the world today. The class will analyze international human rights, international law, and…

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THEO 7060 · Symbols and Narratives of Redemption78

Religious Studies

Rethinking the sacramentality lived by the people of God in the context of the 21st century implies reviewing the theoretical framework of signs and symbols of human language, particularly Christian, in the midst of the debris of modern…

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TMCE 8082 · Social Sin, Responsibility, Accountability and Justice78

Religious Studies

This course builds on Catholic social teaching found in the magisterial documentary history and brings the insights on social sin to bear on responsibility, accountability, and justice. Attention will be given to primary sources in light of…

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Furthest right

None. Boston College Religious Studies has 12 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 · Religious Studiesbias_left_share6.1—196—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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