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George Washington University's course descriptions average 64.4 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so George Washington University reads 3.1 points further right.

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George Washington University: 64.4 (likely range 63.1 to 65.7) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

95%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

41 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

ENGL 3826 · Toni Morrison and William Faulkner72

English & Comparative Literature

Commonalities between the fictional and discursive practices of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner; specifically, how their texts reenact and resist racism and patriarchal structures, explore the ways in which memory and the past construct identity.

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HIST 3362 · African American Women's History72

History

The history of African American women's labor, cultural expression, institution-building, activism, and strategies to combat oppression from the antebellum period through the late twentieth century; the intersection of race, gender, and…

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PHIL 2125W · Philosophy of Race and Gender72

Philosophy

A theoretical examination of the bodily, social, discursive, and political effects of patriarchy, racism, and classism. Includes a significant engagement in writing as a form of critical inquiry and scholarly expression to satisfy the WID requirement.

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Furthest right

None. George Washington University has 41 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 63.1 to 65.7; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

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.

George Washington University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	25.9%	54	view
Sociology	12.5%	80	view
History	3.8%	209	view
Philosophy	2.6%	76	view
English & Comparative Literature	2.4%	165	view
Psychology	0.9%	109	view
Political Science	0.6%	176	view
Art & Art History	0.4%	261	view
Anthropology	0%	140	view
Economics	0%	94	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	0%	4	view
Religious Studies	0%	87	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
George Washington University	mean_bias_score	64.4	63.1 – 65.7	1,455	41
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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