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Claremont McKenna College · Religious Studies

6.7% of Claremont McKenna 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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Claremont McKenna College: 6.7% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
36%Left75–91
14%Center-left59–74
21%Center42–58
7%Center-right26–41
21%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
14 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.

Furthest-left subjects

RLST 083 · Hip-Hop, Religion and Revolution83

Religious Studies

This class examines the revolutionary intersections of race, religion and Hip-Hop from 1960-Present. It explores how Black and racial-ethnic Hip-Hop, R&B, and other artists (Latino, Muslim, Jewish) have kept alive the civil rights and black…

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RLST 084 · Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement83

Religious Studies

The course examines the influence of religion on white supremacy and the civil rights movement in the United States from the 1950's through the 1970's. In particular, it explores how religious ideologies, symbols, texts, and narratives were…

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RLST 159 · History of Christianity in Asia83

Religious Studies

This course analyzes the history of Christianity in Asia from the ancient to the modern periods in India, the Philippines, China, Japan, and Korea. It analyzes the religious and social factors that contributed to its growth along with its…

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Furthest-right subjects

RLST 137 · Jewish-Christian Relations14

Religious Studies

The course will examine the relations between Jews and Christians from antiquity to the present. It will trace the origins of Christian and anti-Judaism, and explore the ways in which Jews and Christians have thought about the other. We…

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RLST 057 · Islamic Empire and Political Philosophy22

Religious Studies

This course is an introduction to Islamic political thought, with special attention paid to the contributions of the Fatimid Empire (909-1171). The Fatimids, who controlled a large portion of the Mediterranean, brought about a number of…

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RLST 087 · Israel - Zionism and the Jewish State25

Religious Studies

The course surveys the history of the state of Israel, from its ideological beginnings in Jewish tradition and the modern Zionist movement to contemporary religious, political, and social issues. Two areas receive focused attention. The…

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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 · Religious Studiesbias_left_share6.7—60—
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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