Anthropology
Is the world map upside down? What is “Africa” and who is African? Is the Global South a place or an ideological project? This seminar introduces students to key debates and intellectual interventions in African studies concerning the…
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Fordham University · Anthropology
17.4% of Fordham University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.
0%45%
Where Anthropology courses fall
0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
45%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
5%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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.
Furthest-left subjects
Anthropology
As we face the interconnected crises of neoliberal austerity measures, job precarity, and debt, a number of social theorists have turned to theology to justify their vision for a post-work, post-debt society. Seemingly ancient and…
Anthropology
The course will explore the power of racial discourses in the production of global difference over the last five decades. Particular emphasis will be placed on the work of James Baldwin to understand the insights of the North American civil…
Furthest-right subjects
Anthropology
This course will examine gender roles, ideologies, and debates in majority-Muslim societies around the world, as well as the global politicization of gender and Islam. Specific topics to be covered include gender in Islamic texts and law…
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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fordham University · Anthropology | bias_left_share | 17.4 | — | 86 | — |
| Anthropology | bias_left_share | 10.4 | 9.8 – 11.1 | 9,234 | — |
- 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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