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Rice University · Women's & Gender Studies

10.2% of Rice University's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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Rice University: 10.2% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
80%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

SWGS 364 · QUEER LITERARY CULTURES75

Women's & Gender Studies

What does it mean to look at the world queerly? What opens up when we approach queer as a verb rather than a noun? In answering these questions, we will examine taken-for-granted ideas about sexuality through focusing on the body, place and…

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SWGS 200 · THEORIZING SEXUALITY AND GENDER70

Women's & Gender Studies

This class builds on SWGS 100 to take a closer look at how sexualities and genders come to be known. Students will become familiar with queer, trans, and feminist theory and will see that key issues and debates appear in both scholarship…

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SWGS 303 · GENDER AND SCIENCE64

Women's & Gender Studies

This course introduces students to the historical, philosophical and social dimensions of science and technology through the lens of feminist and gender studies. It will explore the ways in which science has factored in producing cultural…

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Furthest right

None. Rice University Women's & Gender Studies has 5 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 · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share10.2—49—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
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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