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 · History
2.1% of Southern Methodist University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
0%Far left92–100
18%Left75–91
24%Center-left59–74
24%Center42–58
6%Center-right26–41
18%Right9–25
12%Far right0–8
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
The effects of the breakdown of the old regime and the establishment of Soviet power on Russian society and culture. Examines the evolution of political and social institutions, ideologies, literature and the arts against the backdrop of the era's turbulent political history.
History
Explores the social, political, and economic organization of life in modern China, from the rise of the market economy in the 15th century to the Communist Revolution and the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Students…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Examines the institution of slavery, the events leading to the Civil War, the war itself, and the subsequent efforts at reconstruction.
History
Examines the destruction of the European Jews as they emerged from pre-World War I anti-Semitism and Nazi racism. Considers Jewish responses to genocide, the behavior of bystanders, and possibilities of rescue.
History
Examines major events in American foreign policy from the early national period to Pearl Harbor, emphasizing 19th-century continental expansion, early 20th-century imperialism, and American involvement in the world wars.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University · History | bias_left_share | 2.1 | — | 95 | — |
| History | bias_left_share | 8.3 | 7.9 – 8.7 | 17,232 | — |
- 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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