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Claremont McKenna College · History

11.4% of Claremont McKenna College's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Claremont McKenna College: 11.4% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%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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Furthest left

HIST 114 · Race and Racism in The Colonial Americas75

History

This course examines the development of ideas of race and racial difference in the Atlantic World from the 16 th to the 19 th centuries. Contact and interaction between indigenous Americans, Europeans, and Africans produced fabricated…

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HIST 150C · Early Africa in the Global Context75

History

This course draws from such inspirations as Irele's to provide a corrective to misconceptions and misrepresentations of Africa. Spanning from the earliest times, we will first analyze the representations of Africa, Africans, and their…

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HIST 173 · Global Borderlands75

History

What are the historical processes that have constructed the porous, contested spaces known as borderlands? Instead of taking a diplomatic or state-centered view of borderlands, we examine social processes of border-making, looking at the…

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Furthest right

None. Claremont McKenna College History 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
Claremont McKenna College · Historybias_left_share11.4—105—
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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