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Dartmouth College · Ethnic & African American Studies

40.5% of Dartmouth College's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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Dartmouth College: 40.5% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

7%Far left92–100
48%Left75–91
36%Center-left59–74
2%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
<1%Right9–25
7%Far right0–8
101 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

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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AAAS 33.10 · Rituals of Breath: Black Performance96

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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AAAS 88.11 · Atlantic Slavery/Atlantic Freedom96

Ethnic & African American Studies

When does slavery find itself chiasmatically mirrored in freedom? From the recent Hollywood blockbuster 12 Years a Slave (2013) to the streets of Ferguson and Baltimore, the legacies of slavery and racial violence continue to cast their…

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Furthest-right subjects

AAAS 12 · Race and Slavery in U.S. History0

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course deals with the African heritage, origins of white racial attitudes toward blacks, the slave system in colonial and ante-bellum America, and free Black society in North America. Specific emphasis will be placed on the…

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AAAS 20.50 · Lest We Forget: History, Collective0

Ethnic & African American Studies

Memory and Slavery at Dartmouth Beyond noting that Wheelock owned slaves, little is known of Dartmouth's other historical connections, if any, to the institution of slavery. This research seminar investigates the college's economic…

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AAAS 22.10 · African American Religion and Culture0

Ethnic & African American Studies

in Jim Crow America Jim Crow segregation in the United States compelled many African American men and women to use their bodies— their hands, feet, and voices—to create sacred scenes, sounds, and spaces to articulate their existence in…

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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
Dartmouth College · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share40.5—148—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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