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Rice University · Ethnic & African American Studies

37.1% of Rice University's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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Rice University: 37.1% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
31%Left75–91
54%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

AAAS 204 · INTRODUCTION TO BLACK ART IN AMERICA: 1900S TO TODAY75

Ethnic & African American Studies

This class examines the history of Black art in America since the early 1900s. What is Black Art? Who are the artists, curators, scholars, and theorists who have asked and answered this question over the decades? Is a Black aesthetic…

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AAAS 225 · DYNAMICS OF EMPIRE: PORTUGUESE, AFRICAN, AND BRAZILIAN INTERCONNECTIONS75

Ethnic & African American Studies

The arrival of the Portuguese in Africa in the 15th century marked the beginning of European oceanic expansion, a movement that profoundly shaped the modern world. This expansion introduced dichotomous dynamics of center and periphery,…

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AAAS 279 · BLACK SCI-FI & SPECULATIVE FICTIONS75

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course examines how black science and speculative fiction worries the division between reality and fantasy; challenges the fictions embedded in our national histories; and underscores the social, economic, and political inequities…

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Furthest right

None. Rice University Ethnic & African American Studies has 13 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
Rice University · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share37.1—35—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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