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Santa Clara University · Psychology

3.8% of Santa Clara University's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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Santa Clara University: 3.8% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

100%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

2 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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Framing Subject

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.

Furthest-left subjects

PSYC 152 · Stigma and Health67

Psychology

This seminar will explore stigma as a fundamental cause of health inequalities across a broad range of phenomena, including (but not limited to) mental illness, sexual and gender diversity, race/ethnicity, weight, disability, aging,…

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PSYC 182 · Psychology of Gender67

Psychology

This course examines research on the psychology of gender. Students will learn the leading theories of gender, as well as how gender can be scientifically studied. This course will discuss real world issues surrounding gender (e.g.,…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Santa Clara University Psychology has 2 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Santa Clara University · Psychology	bias_left_share	3.8	—	53	—
Psychology	bias_left_share	2.5	2.2 – 2.8	9,330	—

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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