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Dartmouth College · Women's & Gender Studies

65.4% of Dartmouth College'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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Dartmouth College: 65.4% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

13%Far left92–100
62%Left75–91
23%Center-left59–74
2%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
47 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

WGSS 66.28 · War, Nationalism, and Sexual Violence100

Women's & Gender Studies

in Southeast Europe This course is designed to develop students’ critical thinking skills on the topics of war, nationalism, sexual violence, oppression, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion. Using intersectionality and…

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WGSS 41.01 · Ocean Feminisms96

Women's & Gender Studies

This course introduces students to contemporary debates and conversations on Ocean feminisms in the Pacific. It weaves together literature, film, poetry and art from Oceanic feminist organizers and intellectuals in the Pacific to consider…

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WGSS 66.09 · Black Consciousness and Black96

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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Furthest-right subjects

None. Dartmouth College Women's & Gender Studies has 46 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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 · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share65.4—52—
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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