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Columbia University · Women's & Gender Studies

46.2% of Columbia University's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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Columbia University: 46.2% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

6%Far left92–100
39%Left75–91
56%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
18 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

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

Furthest left

WMST GU4210 · BLACK GEOGRAPHIES92

Women's & Gender Studies

Far from obvious renderings of place, maps are spatial arguments about who belongs where and how living should be defined. This course approaches place as something that is contested daily in the U.S. through the struggle of who gets to lay…

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WMST GR6155 · Histories of the Trans Present91

Women's & Gender Studies

Are trans people new? Is sex binary? Can sex change? These questions and their precedents have monopolized gendered politics and have taken on global significance in recent years. Amidst the tidal wave of transphobia and the scapegoating of…

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WMST UN3155 · Global Histories of the Trans Present78

Women's & Gender Studies

Are trans people new? Is sex binary? Can sex change? These questions and their precedents have monopolized gendered politics and have taken on global significance in recent years. Following Foucault’s formulation of a history of the…

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Furthest right

None. Columbia University Women's & Gender Studies has 18 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
Columbia University · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share46.2—39—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
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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