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Swarthmore College · Religious Studies

18.8% of Swarthmore College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

0%25%
Swarthmore College: 18.8% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
16 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

RELG 031 · Healing Praxis and Social Justice88

Religious Studies

Social justice rhetoric and activism are often framed around the theme of a fight or a struggle - however noble - against the forces and powers of oppression. This course takes a different tack and approaches social justice via perspectives…

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RELG 027 · Christian Nationalism, White Supremacy, and Antisemitism80

Religious Studies

This course works its way backward in time to situate Christian Nationalism in the U.S. as an outgrowth of historical and political manifestations of Christian hegemony and conquest in other parts of the modern and premodern world. We focus…

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RELG 043B · Decolonizing Afro-Latin American Religion78

Religious Studies

Is scientific knowledge superior to ancestral wisdom or spirit revelation in its ability to apprehend and describe reality? This course interrogates the problem of coloniality as an imposition of power-knowledge that occurred as Iberians…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College Religious Studies has 16 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 · Religious Studiesbias_left_share18.8—85—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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