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Fordham University · History

7.1% of Fordham University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Fordham University: 7.1% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
7%Left75–91
79%Center-left59–74
14%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
28 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIST 3951 · Popular Education and Social Change in the Americas78

History

Popular education emerged in the Americas as a liberation project nourished by revolutionary aspirations. The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and others envisioned liberatory education by and for the people. This course will examine the…

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HIST 5566 · Technology and Empire78

History

In this graduate seminar, we will explore the mutually constitutive relationship between the history of colonialism and the history of modern science. As a course about European colonial expansion from the 15th century on, we will focus…

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HIST 3747 · Slavery and Freedom in Greater New York City72

History

This course makes the case that slavery and Black people’s quotidian struggles against it are central rather than peripheral to the history of greater New York City and examines Black struggles for freedom therein over a 300-year period. It…

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Furthest right

None. Fordham University History has 28 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Fordham University · Historybias_left_share7.1—395—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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