History
This research course examines the experiences and objectives of protest against the apartheid regime in South Africa through the autobiographies and memoirs of leading participants in the anti-apartheid movement. Illuminates the different…
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Hamilton College
Hamilton College's course descriptions average 66.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Hamilton College reads 0.7 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
4%Far left92–100
42%Left75–91
42%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
<1%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
<1%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
Philosophy
An exploration of the main strands, topics, and figures of the philosophy of liberation, including the controversial and fruitful theology of liberation. The philosophy of liberation ( filosofía de la liberación ) is a strand of Latin…
Sociology
In this course, students will read sociological texts that examine how race and gender affect people's experiences with state-based violence and social control. This course examines the racist and sexist externally imposed state policies…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Examination of the development of Southern society from European settlement through the Confederacy. Emphasis on evolution of slavery and political development; religious, intellectual and cultural life; slave life and resistance; gender…
Art & Art History
An examination of art and media from the rise of fascism in the 1920s and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to postwar reconstruction and the entrenchment of the Cold War in the 1950s. We will study a range of visual material - including…
Art & Art History
Since the popularization of fascism as a political ideology in early 20th-century Europe, its ideologues have used the built environment to achieve political consensus and perpetrate violence. Mussolini and Hitler pursued modernist…
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 65.5 to 68.2; 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.
Hamilton College by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 66.7% | 27 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 40.4% | 52 | view |
| Sociology | 38.9% | 54 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 16.0% | 94 | view |
| Religious Studies | 14.3% | 28 | view |
| Philosophy | 12.5% | 56 | view |
| History | 11.4% | 105 | view |
| Art & Art History | 9.5% | 84 | view |
| Political Science | 5.5% | 109 | view |
| Psychology | 4.9% | 41 | view |
| Economics | 3.5% | 57 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton College | mean_bias_score | 66.9 | 65.5 – 68.2 | 707 | 116 |
| 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.