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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

39%Left75–91

56%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

18 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

ANTH 044 · Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change87

Anthropology

(Cross-listed as PEAC 043 ) How has gender emerged as an analytical category? How has sexuality emerged as an analytical category? What role did discourses surrounding gender and sexuality play in the context of Western colonialism in the…

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ANTH 002D · First-Year Seminar: Culture and Gender83

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 057C · Interrogating Forensic Power: Philadelphia and the MOVE Massacre83

Anthropology

This course examines the politics of forensic knowledge production in Philadelphia, with a focus on the MOVE bombing of 1985 as a defining moment in the city's fraught relationship with state power, racialized violence, and scientific…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Swarthmore College Anthropology has 18 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
Swarthmore College · Anthropology	bias_left_share	37.1	—	35	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

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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