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Santa Clara University · Religious Studies

8.7% of Santa Clara University's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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Santa Clara University: 8.7% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

41%Left75–91

34%Center-left59–74

13%Center42–58

9%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

3%Far right0–8

32 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

NEW 110 · Theologies of Freedom and Justice83

Religious Studies

In response to global freedom struggles and other social movements during the latter half of the twentieth century, the face and character of contemporary Christian theology dramatically changed as new theological voices from within the…

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NEW 158 · Postcolonial Perspectives on the New Testament83

Religious Studies

Introduces students to postcolonial critical theory and uses it to explore the political contexts of New Testament texts, raising new questions about the ethical implications of how we read these texts today. Also listed as WGST 147. (5 units)

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NEW 48 · Racializing Jesus83

Religious Studies

The course explores the various ancient and contemporary ethnic representations of Jesus in art, film, regalia, and scripture. Although portraits of Jesus as a white, blue-eyed prophet, messiah, or rabbi haunt the popular cultural…

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Furthest-right subjects

NTHS 4800 · EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND ENSLAVEMENT0

Religious Studies

This seminar offers a historical and theological investigation of enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean, with a particular focus on the entanglement of early Christianity with the practices and ideologies of Roman enslavement. Students…

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CE 2016 · FAMILY ETHICS33

Religious Studies

The course will engage Christian thinking on sex, gender, marriage, family, and children, with an emphasis on Catholic theological ethics. By taking family as its primary frame, the course carves out a space at the intersection of sexual…

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NEW 175 · Wealth, Work, and the Gospel40

Religious Studies

This course explores how Jews and Christians understood the significance of wealth and work in the Bible and in later interpretation of those texts. Beginning with the Jewish scriptures, we will probe the economic contexts of emerging…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Santa Clara University · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	8.7	—	172	—
Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.6	4.1 – 5.1	7,282	—

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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