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Howard University · Political Science

1.8% of Howard 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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Howard University: 1.8% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100
75%Left75–91
13%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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.

Furthest-left subjects

POLS 284 · Third World Political Theory83

Political Science

Examination of the contribution of third world theorists and leaders to the development of political theory. Topics include dependency theory, nonalignment, and alternative political and economic models

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POLS 233 · Pan-Africanism78

Political Science

Analysis of the origins of Pan-Africanism within the framework of the interactions between it and the political, economic, and cultural forces which produce it.

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POLS 250 · Social Justice Policy78

Political Science

This seminar course focuses on western approaches to rendering social justice in New World nations forged by colonization of indigenous, slave, and immigrant population by settler populations. Particular attention is given to both processes…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Howard University Political Science has 7 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Howard University · Political Sciencebias_left_share1.8—113—
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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