Bureau of Disruption

All schools · Other private

Northeastern University · Religious Studies

7.7% of Northeastern University's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

0%25%
Northeastern University: 7.7% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

See it for yourself

FramingSubject

Furthest left

PHIL 1133 · Selling Spirituality72

Religious Studies

Emphasizes the ethical consequences of extracting religious practices from racialized communities (including communities associated with Indigenous and Asian traditions). Explores how the marketing of religious practices as "spiritual"…

See it for yourself →

PHIL 3000 · Interdisciplinary Methods for Politics, Philosophy, and Economics70

Religious Studies

Offers students an opportunity to learn to think, research, and write in an interdisciplinary way and bring together the core methods of the three disciplines constituting the PPE major: philosophy, political science, and economics.…

See it for yourself →

PHIL 2619 · Race and Religion in Film65

Religious Studies

Explores how relationships between historical and contemporary representations of African Americans, other persons of the African Diaspora, and the continent of Africa have been presented in film in relation to religious themes. Offers an…

See it for yourself →

Furthest right

None. Northeastern University Religious Studies has 6 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Northeastern University · Religious Studiesbias_left_share7.7—78—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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.

Ask a question about Northeastern University · Make a school card