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Louisiana State University · Ethnic & African American Studies

6.3% of Louisiana State 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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Louisiana State University: 6.3% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
2 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

AAAS 4900 · History of the Civil Rights Movement75

Ethnic & African American Studies

Survey of the historic civil rights movement. Focuses on the 1940s through the late 1960s. Connections between the movement and ongoing liberation struggles in the United States.

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AAAS 3425 · Black Women in America70

Ethnic & African American Studies

Surveys intersection of race and gender in the U.S. through historical and contemporary lenses, course examines commonalities, differences and struggles that mark black women’s subjectivity.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Louisiana State University Ethnic & African American Studies has 2 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
Louisiana State University · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share6.3—16—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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.

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