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Dartmouth College's course descriptions average 67.4 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Dartmouth College reads 0.2 points further right.

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Dartmouth College: 67.4 (likely range 66.2 to 68.5) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

2%Far left92–100

21%Left75–91

72%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

<1%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

241 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.

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AAAS 67.80 · Black Queer & Trans Futures: An100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Experiment Engaging with the histories and present realities of colonial dispossession, racial violence and cisheteropatriarchy on campus and beyond, we will examine and craft visions of alternative futures grounded in prison abolition.…

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WGSS 66.09 · Black Consciousness and Black94

Women's & Gender Studies

Feminisms This seminar seeks to decenter mainstream (what bell hooks calls “imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, [heteronormative], patriarchal”) thinking to understand the world differently. Reading primary and scholarly texts from…

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AAAS 33.10 · Rituals of Breath: Black Performance92

Ethnic & African American Studies

and Resistance This interdisciplinary course explores the historical legacy of public rituals of extreme violence against African American peoples as both sites of anti-black state and non- state sanctioned disciplinary projects as well as…

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ECON 15 · Political Economy of China38

Economics

This course examines how politics, economics, and culture have shaped the modern Chinese economic policy. Course topics include the Mao era, the pathologies of socialism and central planning, and the post-Mao transition to the market.…

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ENGL 52.11 · Daniel Webster and the Dartmouth39

English & Comparative Literature

College Case Two hundred years ago, in 1819, Daniel Webster argued a case in front of the Supreme Court defending his alma mater, Dartmouth College, against the predations of the State of New Hampshire. The Court found in favor of…

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ECON 70.01 · The Transition of Poland to a Market42

Economics

Economy Most economics courses taught in the US heavily emphasize the efficiency of markets and how individual decision-making, in freely functioning markets, can be modeled and understood. But there are a number of countries around the…

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Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 66.2 to 68.5; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Dartmouth College by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	65.4%	52	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	40.5%	148	view
Sociology	29.0%	62	view
Anthropology	18.8%	96	view
English & Comparative Literature	18.1%	215	view
History	15.1%	146	view
Religious Studies	9.8%	122	view
Political Science	8.6%	162	view
Art & Art History	8.6%	152	view
Philosophy	2.8%	145	view
Economics	2.0%	49	view
Psychology	0%	80	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Dartmouth College	mean_bias_score	67.4	66.2 – 68.5	1,429	241
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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