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Florida State University's course descriptions average 66.5 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Florida State University reads 1.0 points further right.

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Florida State University: 66.5 (likely range 63.2 to 69.8) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

6%Far left92–100

35%Left75–91

38%Center-left59–74

12%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

3%Right9–25

6%Far right0–8

68 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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Framing Subject

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

EUH 4576 · 20th-Century Russia100

History

This course examines the social, econom ic, cultural, and international, as well as political, development of Russia from the final years of Tsarist rule through the Bolshevik Revolution to its emergence as one of the world's superpowers in the 1990s.

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REL 3493 · Religion, Prisons, and Abolition100

Religious Studies

This course makes two claims: 1) Without religious ideas and practices, prisons as we know them would be unthinkable; and 2) Religious ideas and practices are essential for building a world without prisons. Using historical, geographic,…

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LAH 3480 · History of Cuba92

History

This course covers the 1959 Cuban Revolution, which captured the world's attention and continues to fascinate. But Cuba's history since European encounter has encompassed every aspect of the human experience. This course covers the island's…

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Furthest-right subjects

EUH 4241 · The Holocaust in Historical Perspective0

History

This course de tails the background and career of the Holocaust as well as the continuing problem of "Holocaust denial." Special emphasis is given to the ideas of such racists as de Gobineau and Hitler.

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EUH 4465 · Weimar and Nazi Germany0

History

This course examines the back ground of the Nazi regime, the character of Hitler's dictatorship, and the origins and course of WWII in its European context. Also examined is National Socialism's impact on German institutions and racial consequences.

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REL 3194 · The Holocaust0

Religious Studies

This course examines the origins, the process, and the consequences of the destruction of the European Jews during World War II.

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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 63.2 to 69.8; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Only 24 of Florida State University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
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.

Florida State University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Ethnic & African American Studies	45.5%	11	view
Sociology	14.6%	82	view
Religious Studies	3.1%	64	view
History	1.8%	167	view
Economics	1.0%	97	view
Art & Art History	0.7%	152	view
Anthropology	0%	36	view
English & Comparative Literature	0%	127	view
Philosophy	0%	69	view
Political Science	0%	72	view
Psychology	0%	75	view
Women's & Gender Studies	0%	6	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
Florida State University	mean_bias_score	66.5	63.2 – 69.8	958	24
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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