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Swarthmore College · Anthropology

37.1% of Swarthmore College's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Swarthmore College: 37.1% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
15%Left75–91
85%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

ANTH 137 · Law and Violence: Anthropology beyond the Forensic Gaze83

Anthropology

This seminar, originally offered as Law and Violence, is part of Swarthmore's 2024 Racial Justice course offerings. We will explore the question of the relation between law and violence through an exploration of forensic knowledge. In 1985…

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ANTH 002D · First-Year Seminar: Culture and Gender76

Anthropology

The goal of this seminar is to dismantle commonplace assumptions about gender, sexuality, and sexual difference. It brings key texts in gender theory (Foucault, Butler, and others) into conversation with anthropological studies that respond…

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ANTH 003G · First-Year Seminar: Development and its Discontents72

Anthropology

In this course, our goal will be to gain a new perspective on an often-unquestioned social "good": that of international economic development, including foreign aid to countries in the global south. This course will provide students with an…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College Anthropology has 13 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Swarthmore College · Anthropologybias_left_share37.1—35—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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