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Swarthmore College · Ethnic & African American Studies

49.0% of Swarthmore College's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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Swarthmore College: 49.0% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

4%Far left92–100

29%Left75–91

63%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

24 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

BLST 094A · Student Run: Freedom Dreaming: Black Radical Insurgency and Abolitionist Imaginings100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Students Fighting for Transformative Justice, Abolition, and Revolution (STAR) cultivates campus spaces that find ways in which we can join the global fight to abolish the carceral state. The goal of this student-designed and student-run…

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BLST 028 · Black Liberation 202086

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Cross-listed as SOCI 028 ) 2020 has been a tumultuous year. Economic, social, environmental and political events around the world have put global racial hierarchy in stark relief. In the United States, the Coronavirus pandemic is revealing…

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ASAM 047C · Asian American Gender/Sexuality/Species84

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Cross-listed as ENGL 047C ) Asian Americans are typically represented as either the model minority, the immigrant whose successful assimilation serves to discipline other minorities, or the yellow peril, the eternal foreigner threatening…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College Ethnic & African American Studies has 24 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Swarthmore College · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	49.0	—	49	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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