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Marquette University

Marquette University's course descriptions average 64.5 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Marquette University reads 3.0 points further right.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

Marquette University: 64.5 (likely range 62.8 to 66.3) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

8%Left75–91

78%Center-left59–74

14%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

51 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 3611 · Jane Austen83

English & Comparative Literature

Study Jane Austen’s greatest novels to understand how they depicted and challenged the inner lives of women in a culture that kept them from achieving their full human potential and in a patriarchal society rigged against them. Through…

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ENGL 3785 · LGBTQ+ Narratives: Literature, Film, Theory80

English & Comparative Literature

Examine the work of LGBTQ+ authors, artists, and directors. Consider the significance of LGBTQ+ identities for our contemporary culture. Critique widespread cultural assumptions that uphold the violence of ableism, heteronormativity,…

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THEO 3460 · Theology and Global Health76

Religious Studies

Study of the historical and communal contexts and the theological ethics of challenges to global health such as health inequalities, poverty, social determinants of health, HIV/Aids and epidemic outbreaks. In dialogue with liberation…

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None. Marquette University has 50 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 62.8 to 66.3; 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.

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

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	50%	2	view
Sociology	11.9%	42	view
English & Comparative Literature	10.7%	149	view
History	10.3%	107	view
Anthropology	9.4%	32	view
Psychology	5.2%	97	view
Philosophy	3.8%	79	view
Religious Studies	2.2%	226	view
Political Science	1.0%	104	view
Art & Art History	0%	24	view
Economics	0%	54	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
Marquette University	mean_bias_score	64.5	62.8 – 66.3	916	51
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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