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Purdue University · History

1.7% of Purdue University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Purdue University: 1.7% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
83%Center-left59–74
17%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.

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Furthest left

HIST 46900 · Black Civil Rights Movement70

History

00. This course will examine the origins, dynamics, and consequences of the modern black civil rights movement by exploring how struggles for racial equality and full citizenship worked to dismantle entrenched systems of segregation,…

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HIST 36405 · Patient Voices In The History Of Medicine63

History

00. This course examines the history of medicine in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present by starting with patient voices, which provide a glimpse into the experience of illness. Using patient reflections as the…

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HIST 39800 · African American History Since 187762

History

00. This course covers major themes in African American history from 1877 that focus on Black Americans' struggle to overcome social, economic, and political oppression and to win basic civil and human rights while making valuable…

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Furthest right

None. Purdue University History 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
Purdue University · Historybias_left_share1.7—358—
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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