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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

8%Far left92–100
18%Left75–91
31%Center-left59–74
21%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
5%Right9–25
15%Far right0–8
39 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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.

Furthest-left subjects

HIST 133A · Late Imperial Russian History, 1861-1917100

History

This course is designed to offer students a basic knowledge of late imperial Russian politics and culture, and to provide background for understanding the rise of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Offered: Occasionally Course Number: HIST133A CM

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HIST 133B · Modern Russian History, 1917 to the Present92

History

This course analyzes Russian society and politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods. Emphasis will be placed on the Russian revolutionary experience, on the origins and implications of Stalinism, on the Soviet Union after Stalin, and on…

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HIST 163 · Modern Chinese History, 1750 to the Present92

History

This course examines the various processes that define China's struggle for a modern identity and state. It begins by evaluating the changes in 18 th -century Chinese society and the economy resulting from population growth, increased…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 116 · Slavery: A World History0

History

This course examines the history of slavery in many global locations across multiple periods of time. Beginning with ancient forms of bound labor, it then traces the growth of slavery in the Americas, built initially upon the enslavement of…

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HIST 139E · Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany0

History

A study of the transformation of German culture and society from 1919-1945. Begins with intellectual dilemmas of 19 th -century Germany. Examines flourishing culture and political turmoils of Weimar democracy, Hitler's rise to power in…

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HIST 146 · History of Germany, 1740 to the Present0

History

Traces the history of German lands from Frederick the Great to recent reunification. The rise of Prussia, the mixed responses to the Enlightenment, the emergence of Bismarck, and the creation of a unified German state in 1871, are examined…

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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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