History
Considers the denial and pursuit of rights around four key areas integral to human rights: labor, spatial segregation, gender and sexuality, and education. Examines each of these to better understand how colonial and apartheid states denied…
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Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University's course descriptions average 66.7 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Southern Methodist University reads 0.8 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
0%Far left92–100
27%Left75–91
73%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest left
Art & Art History
Explores ways that audiences and curators co-create the poetics and practices of exhibition display, with a particular emphasis on the arts and cultures of the Global South (especially Africa and the Afro-Atlantic). Students discuss,…
Art & Art History
Invites students to think critically about the role of museums as spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Discusses the historical inception of colonial museums, the acquisition practices of museums, and the strategies of display common…
Furthest right
None. Southern Methodist University has 11 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 63.0 to 70.5; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Only 11 of Southern Methodist University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
- 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.
Southern Methodist University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art & Art History | 4.3% | 161 | view |
| Anthropology | 2.4% | 85 | view |
| History | 2.1% | 95 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 35 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0% | 75 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 0% | 1 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 43 | view |
| Political Science | 0% | 85 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 34 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 43 | view |
| Sociology | 0% | 42 | view |
| Women's & Gender Studies | 0% | 8 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | mean_bias_score | 66.7 | 63.0 – 70.5 | 707 | 11 |
| 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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