Ethnic & African American Studies
Explore Black American poetry from the mid-1960s to the present, emphasizing the cultural roots and the role of poetry in the Black Arts Movement.
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Howard University · Ethnic & African American Studies
4.9% of Howard University's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.
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Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall
0%Far left92–100
36%Left75–91
43%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
14%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
Ethnic & African American Studies
Explore the political and economic forces that explain the relative under-development of the "Third World" today. Attention given to the emergence of the "Third World" and the historic and modern forces of exploitation that have shaped and continue to shape it.
Ethnic & African American Studies
Review the Harlem Renaissance Movement and analyze how black writers emerged as distinct political voices in the arts from 1910 to 1945 in this course. This experience can deepen your understanding of African American literature and provide…
Furthest-right subjects
Ethnic & African American Studies
Analyze autobiographies and slave narratives to explore the political, social, economic, psychological, and cultural experiences of African Americans. Examine the historical and social context of the writers' contributions to American…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Survey various systems of bondage in Europe proper, the Near East, Africa and the Americas. Emphasis is placed on the economic, social and cultural factors, which contributed to the rise and decline of slavery throughout the world.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard University · Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 4.9 | — | 82 | — |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 24.7 | 23.7 – 25.6 | 7,955 | — |
- 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.