History
Forty years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, approximately one-third of humanity found itself living under regimes directly inspired by Soviet communism. This course offers an extensive survey of the global spread of communism,…
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7.1% of Fordham University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
3%Far left92–100
24%Left75–91
23%Center-left59–74
26%Center42–58
9%Center-right26–41
8%Right9–25
7%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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
Given the rise of contemporary China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) might seem like an anomaly driven by Mao Zedong's cult of personality. This course will challenge this idea by exploring the broader trajectory of…
History
This seminar will explore the enormous transformations in life in the Soviet Union under the rule of Joseph Stalin, one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century and the architect of massive social transformation that turned Russia…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Exploring the fateful diversity and globalization links among Irish emigration, African slavery and Indian removal in Ireland, England and America at the fateful 19th century Irish-Atlantic crossroads. A vivid mix of period and present-day…
History
Study of the problem of how Nazism arose in German society, the ways in which it triumphed, and its significance for Germany and modern world history. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of…
History
As a quintessential genocide, the Holocaust is intensively studied by scholars. As the emblem for the most radical evil in the human experience, it has also widely captured the imagination of millions. Why is this so? Our course will…
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 · History | bias_left_share | 7.1 | — | 395 | — |
| History | bias_left_share | 8.3 | 7.9 – 8.7 | 17,232 | — |
- 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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