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Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University's course descriptions average 66.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Santa Clara University reads 0.6 points further right.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

Santa Clara University: 66.9 (likely range 65.7 to 68.2) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

<1%Far left92–100

13%Left75–91

81%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

112 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

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ENGL 102 · Decolonial Feminist Epistemologies92

English & Comparative Literature

Decolonial Feminist Epistemologies engages with Third World and emerging Fourth Wave feminist actions and struggles. In this course we therefore look to past feminist movements and expressions, to understand the present, and carve a vision…

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ENGL 165 · Community-Based Research Methods89

English & Comparative Literature

Provides students with the epistemological, theoretical and ethical foundations for engaging in community-based research methodologies with ethnically and culturally diverse communities. Students will examine decolonizing and…

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HIST 76 · Gender Based Violence83

History

Interdisciplinary study of gender based violence in the US and how gender power shapes the dynamics of every interaction. Explores the institutionalization of violence, and its consequences on systems and civic life. (4 units)

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None. Santa Clara University has 112 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 65.7 to 68.2; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Santa Clara University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
History	24.7%	158	view
English & Comparative Literature	20.4%	167	view
Sociology	18.8%	64	view
Religious Studies	8.7%	172	view
Anthropology	8.3%	48	view
Psychology	3.8%	53	view
Philosophy	3.5%	85	view
Art & Art History	2.3%	87	view
Political Science	2.1%	47	view
Economics	0%	62	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Santa Clara University	mean_bias_score	66.9	65.7 – 68.2	943	112
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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