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11.1% of Middlebury College's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Middlebury College: 11.1% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

80%Center-left59–74

20%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 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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Framing Subject

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

ANTH 0232 · Africa and Anthropology: Power, Continuity, and Change72

Anthropology

Sub-Saharan Africa has long represented primitive mysteries for Europeans and North Americans, as a 'Dark Continent' full of exotic people and animals. Even now, many Americans learn little about Africa and Africans except for 'thin' media…

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ANTH 0242 · Law and Politics72

Anthropology

In this course we will explore how societies construct, negotiate, and contest political systems and legal frameworks in diverse contexts from an anthropological perspective. We will begin by examining anthropological perspectives on…

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ANTH 0229 · Anthropologies of the Middle East: Representations, Politics, Cultures67

Anthropology

In this course we will explore the Middle East, past and present, from an anthropological viewpoint. We will start by looking at how past foreign influences and biased views have shaped how we see the region today and continue with nuanced…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Middlebury College Anthropology has 5 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Middlebury College · Anthropology	bias_left_share	11.1	—	18	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

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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