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Fordham University · Political Science

4.1% of Fordham University's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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Fordham University: 4.1% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

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

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

POSC 3550 · Decolonial Thought in Latin America72

Political Science

As a discipline and movement, “the decolonial” is an expansive terrain offering fertile ground for thinking through the social and political questions that haunt the 21st century. Adjacent to postcolonialism, decolonial political thought…

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POSC 3231 · Judicial Politics63

Political Science

This course provides an introduction to the study of law and courts as political institutions and judges as political actors. Topics include judicial behavior and policymaking, the politics of Supreme Court nominations, the role of public…

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POSC 3408 · The Civil Rights Movement and the Courts63

Political Science

This course will focus on the myriad ways the United States legal system both aided and hindered the advance of civil rights and equal opportunities for African Americans. The course will cover such topics as the constitutional origins of…

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Furthest right

None. Fordham University Political Science has 7 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 · Political Sciencebias_left_share4.1—172—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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