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Rice University · Anthropology

13.1% of Rice University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Rice University: 13.1% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

7%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
31%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
4%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
54 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

ANTH 419 · BLACK FEMINIST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES94

Anthropology

This course engages Black feminism as a foundation for science and technology studies (STS). STS is a field that focuses on how power is infused in how we create scientific knowledge, how we disseminate “objective” information, and how it…

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ANTH 516 · BLACK DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS IN THE AMERICAS94

Anthropology

This course will use both historical and contemporary readings focusing on Black and decolonial/anticolonial feminisms as theory and praxis to reflect on the particular experiences of Afro-descendants throughout the Americas. Through a…

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ANTH 619 · BLACK FEMINIST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES94

Anthropology

This course engages Black feminism as a foundation for science and technology studies (STS). STS is a field that focuses on how power is infused in how we create scientific knowledge, how we disseminate “objective” information, and how it…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 340 · NEOLIBERALISM AND GLOBALIZATION25

Anthropology

This course explores the relationship between two of the most powerful forces shaping the world today: economic globalization and political neoliberalism. Using ethnographic, policy and theoretical documentation drawn from a variety of case…

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ANTH 540 · NEOLIBERALISM AND GLOBALIZATION25

Anthropology

This course explores the relationship between two of the most powerful forces shaping the world today: economic globalization and political neoliberalism. Using ethnographic, policy and theoretical documentation drawn from a variety of case…

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ANTH 351 · CULTURES OF NATIONALISM42

Anthropology

This course will examine the cultural dimensions of nationalism, particularly around the creation of forms of "peoplehood" that seem to be presupposed by almost all nation-building projects. Texts to be analyzed will include the Declaration…

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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
Rice University · Anthropologybias_left_share13.1—259—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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