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Tufts University · Women's & Gender Studies

23.1% of Tufts University's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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Tufts University: 23.1% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
64%Left75–91
27%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
5%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
22 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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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

WGSS 0073 · Introduction To Queer Studies83

Women's & Gender Studies

Introduction to the interdisciplinary field of queer studies through an examination of key texts and practices. Course will interrogate notions of normality; binary systems of sex, gender, and sexuality; and cultural representations of…

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WGSS 0124 · Queer Anthropology83

Women's & Gender Studies

(Cross-listed as ANTH 124) Meanings surrounding queer sexual practices and subjectivities, derived from anthropological research from throughout the world and classic works on queer theory. Counts toward the Cultural and Social Justice Anthropology minors.

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WGSS 0140 · Feminist Theologies83

Women's & Gender Studies

(Cross-listed with REL 112) Survey of feminism's impact on the religious commitments of women and on traditional religious institutions, beliefs, and practices. Feminist scholarship in the study of scriptural texts and other historical…

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Furthest-right subjects

WGSS 0070 · Grimms' Fairy Tales25

Women's & Gender Studies

(Cross-listed as GER 70) The Grimm brothers as nineteenth-century collectors and authors. Folk tale and literary fairy tale; relation to the development of German nationalism and capitalism; role in attitude formation toward gender and…

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WGSS 0070 · Grimms' Fairy Tales30

Women's & Gender Studies

Anh.Nguyen590863@tufts.ed u (Cross-listed as GER 70) The Grimm brothers as nineteenth-century collectors and authors. Folk tale and literary fairy tale; relation to the development of German nationalism and capitalism; role in attitude…

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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
Tufts University · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share23.1—39—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
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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