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North Carolina State University · History

4% of North Carolina State University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

0%35%
North Carolina State University: 4% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

5%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
15%Center-left59–74
35%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
10%Right9–25
5%Far right0–8
20 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

HI 539 · History Of the Soviet Union and After94

History

History of the Soviet state and society from the 1917 Revolution, including post-Soviet situation. Political disarray and resistance to the Bolshevik regime, 1917-21; industrialization, urbanization and application of coercive techniques of…

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HI 317 · Cuba Today: Historical and Sociopolitical Perspectives83

History

This course, offered in Havana, Cuba, through the Study Abroad Office, examines Cuban political, social and economic dynamics through historical and sociopolitical perspectives. It explores the process and legacy of colonization, the role…

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HI 450 · U.S. Labor Since 190078

History

This course explores the history of work, workers, and working class organizations in the twentieth century United States; with particular attention to three core issues in twentieth-century American labor history: whether the US South has…

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Furthest-right subjects

HI 332 · Germany and the World Wars0

History

Germany's rise as a world power in the years prior to World War i, the emergence of Adolf Hitler and national socialism, and the consequences in defeat of World War II. Topics include nationalism, industrialism and the struggle of workers,…

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HI 323 · Science, American Style17

History

Exploration of the distinctive nature of American science and its place in American culture. Analysis of the historical context of developments, such as early contributions to science, natural history, and paleontology; the growth of…

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HI 354 · The Rise of the American Empire17

History

This course investigates the rise of the American Empire from the Spanish American War of 1898 through the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. The purpose of the course is not only to acquaint you with the crises and triumphs of US…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
North Carolina State University · Historybias_left_share4—100—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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