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Boston UniversityBoston University's course descriptions average 68.2 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Boston University reads 0.7 points further left.
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.
English & Comparative Literature
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - May be repeated for credit if section topic differs. An exploration of cinema's relationship to power and ideology through key texts in the critical…
English & Comparative Literature
Topic varies by semester. Please see English Department's website for current description. This course asks: what can political theory of racial capitalism offer to an analysis of contemporary cultural production? How can literature and…
Women's & Gender Studies
Surveys major texts and arguments in queer theory from Butler's Gender Trouble to contemporary discussions of cisnormativity, homonationalism, affect, pinkwashing, crip theory, and queer-of-color critique. Explores different uses of queer…
Political Science
Examines politics in Southern Africa focusing on issues of race and ethnicity, economic development and inequality, and struggles over authoritarianism, democratization, and human rights. Explores the legacies of apartheid, racial…
History
Examines Middle Eastern history through the lens of its cities because cities have always been pivotal sites of governance, religious life, cultural development, architectural legacies, and political protest. Today, they are the epicenter…
Political Science
Focuses on the problem of nationalism, distinguishing types, examining origins, and analyzing political, social, and economic implications. Emphasis is on nationalism's spread into territories in Asia, specifically China, and under the…
Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.
50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.
Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 64.3 to 72.1; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 66.7% | 3 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 25% | 4 | view |
| History | 7.7% | 26 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 3.8% | 52 | view |
| Economics | 1.8% | 57 | view |
| Art & Art History | 1.0% | 105 | view |
| Anthropology | 0% | 22 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 22 | view |
| Political Science | 0% | 23 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 49 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 7 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston University | mean_bias_score | 68.2 | 64.3 – 72.1 | 370 | 9 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |