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New York University · Anthropology

16.2% of New York University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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New York University: 16.2% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

3%Far left92–100

24%Left75–91

55%Center-left59–74

3%Center42–58

3%Center-right26–41

10%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

29 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-UA 112 · Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality92

Anthropology

This course examines the social and cultural forces that shape the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality. It takes these categories as nonbinary and fluid. Using an intersectional approach, it considers how various subject positions…

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ANTH-UA 747 · Introduction to Native American Studies83

Anthropology

This course is a general introduction to the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). The course will introduce students to the central questions and debates of NAIS, including but not limited to Indigenous hidden histories…

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ANTH-UA 9091 · The Australian Experience83

Anthropology

This course offers a wide-ranging critique of Australian culture and society. It aims to interrogate Australian society with a methodology that draws on critical race theory, feminism, social geography and cultural studies. It will look at…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH-UA 9063 · Modern Italy17

Anthropology

This course introduces contemporary Italy in all its complexity and fascination. Reviewing politics, economics, society, and culture over the past two centuries, the course has a primary goal -- to consider how developments since the 1800s…

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ANTH-UA 111 · Populism, Religion, and Crisis in Europe20

Anthropology

Populist rhetoric, rising xenophobia, anti-migrant hysteria, Islamophobia, high unemployment, and restrictive legislation have called many of the myths that undergird Europe's enlightened public sphere into question. In this class, we will…

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ANTH-UA 322 · Anthropology of Cities25

Anthropology

Cities and urbanization processes as key spaces for analyzing debates around citizenship, democracy, and national identity across the globe. We also examine cities as creative hubs where some major social transformations are taking place,…

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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
New York University · Anthropology	bias_left_share	16.2	—	99	—
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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