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Bowdoin College · Ethnic & African American Studies

36.4% of Bowdoin 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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Bowdoin College: 36.4% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

5%Far left92–100

22%Left75–91

70%Center-left59–74

3%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

63 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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

Furthest left

LACL 3517 · (b) Rebel Ecology: Black and Native Struggles for Land and Life Against Extraction93

Ethnic & African American Studies

Considers Dr. Guess's (2021) concept and theory of a "rebel ecology '' by asking, more broadly, what other socioecological models exist? Weaves together a study of differing, yet often converging or synergistic traditions of Black/Womanist…

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AFRS 2348 · (b, IP) Girlhood and Empire: Girls, Power, and Resistance in Global Perspectives92

Ethnic & African American Studies

Investigates the construction of girlhood through the lens of global feminist resistance, centering the writings and struggles of young women and femmes in the experience and practice of colonized, transnational, and refugee girlhood. With…

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LACL 2348 · (b, IP) Girlhood and Empire: Girls, Power, and Resistance in Global Perspectives92

Ethnic & African American Studies

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Furthest right

None. Bowdoin College Ethnic & African American Studies has 63 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Bowdoin College · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	36.4	—	173	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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