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University of Arizona · Anthropology

7.8% of University of Arizona's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of Arizona: 7.8% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

4%Far left92–100

37%Left75–91

44%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

11%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

27 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 328 · Whiteness and Racial Violence95

Anthropology

This upper-level course offers students a chance to explore critical race theory and racial inequality with a focus on whiteness and its relation to centuries of racial violence. What is whiteness based on? How is it created, and what gives…

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ANTH 625 · Whiteness and White Supremacy87

Anthropology

This course investigates the construction of social difference through a focus on race and whiteness. How are we surrounded (and differentially impacted) by notions of whiteness? How do mundane practices such as brushing one's teeth or…

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ANTH 466 · Racism and Resistance in Latin America84

Anthropology

In this course, we will explore race and resistance across the Americas. Taking the Brazilian situation as a springboard, this class will critically analyze notions of race, racism, and anti-racism. Students will have the opportunity to…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 408A · Islamic Movements in the Contemporary Muslim World17

Anthropology

The course objectives are (1) to acquaint students with traditional literature and contemporary research on Islamic movements, and 2) to introduce students to the historical and ideological basis of an emerging globalized political Islam.

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ANTH 612 · Anthropology of Modernity17

Anthropology

Course identifying and analyzing characteristically modern social forms; their historical emergence; role of colonial and imperial projects; articulation with locales on various scales and impact on the politics of self and community in cases from around the world

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ANTH 508A · Islamic Movements in the Contemporary Muslim World25

Anthropology

The course's objectives are (1) to acquaint students with traditional literature and contemporary research on Islamic movements, and 2) to introduce students to the historical and ideological basis of an emerging globalized political Islam.…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Arizona · Anthropology	bias_left_share	7.8	—	295	—
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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