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Tulane University

Tulane University's course descriptions average 64.3 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Tulane University reads 3.3 points further right.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

Tulane University: 64.3 (likely range 62.5 to 66.0) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

1%Far left92–100

10%Left75–91

77%Center-left59–74

12%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

69 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.

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ARST 3300 · Decolonizing the Camera92

Art & Art History

In this course students will examine their own visual practice through the framework of decolonization. Through this process, students will engage with topics of race, representation, and power, while they build a visual practice that takes…

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GESS 1900 · Sex, Power and Culture88

Women's & Gender Studies

This course invites students to learn the skills necessary to identify, analyze, and ultimately transform the cultural, social, and political forces that shape and are shaped by sex and sexuality. Approaching sexuality as a system of norms,…

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SOCI 6130 · Race, Crime and Control80

Sociology

This course examines the US Criminal Justice system as a mechanism of racial control. It covers the socio-historical construction of race, different theories and practices of racism and their manifestation and institutionalization in the…

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PSDV 4320 · Migrants Refugees & Development43

Political Science

This course provides students with the opportunity to consider the implications of global population movements - 258 million in 2017, exclusive of internal migrants - and the events they reflect. We examine internal and external migration…

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Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 62.5 to 66.0; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Tulane University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	54.5%	11	view
Sociology	16.3%	86	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	12.9%	31	view
Anthropology	7.9%	140	view
History	6.6%	258	view
Art & Art History	4.2%	142	view
Psychology	2.8%	106	view
English & Comparative Literature	2.5%	119	view
Political Science	2.2%	134	view
Economics	1.2%	82	view
Philosophy	0%	85	view
Religious Studies	0%	8	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Tulane University	mean_bias_score	64.3	62.5 – 66.0	1,202	69
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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