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University of Arizona · History

5.0% of University of Arizona's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of Arizona: 5.0% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

14%Far left92–100
14%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
12%Center42–58
2%Center-right26–41
5%Right9–25
7%Far right0–8
43 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

HIST 425 · History of the Soviet Union100

History

The Bolshevik Revolution and problems of Soviet and Russian history from 1917 to the present.

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HIST 481 · The Life and Times of Mao Zedong100

History

This course seeks to understand the tumultuous events of 20th century China by examining the central historical figure of this era, namely Mao Zedong. Through a variety of course material, including biography, fiction, film, and primary…

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HIST 525 · History of the Soviet Union100

History

The Bolshevik Revolution and problems of Soviet and Russian history from 1917 to the present. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper.

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 308 · The African Slave Trades0

History

This course examines the history of the African slave trade. The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the world's largest forced migration between continents, but it was only one of many slave trades that shaped societies throughout the world. In…

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HIST 374 · The Holocaust0

History

Socio-economic and intellectual roots of modern anti-Semitism, evolution of Nazi policy, the world of death camps, responses of Axis and Allied governments, and responses of the Jews.

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HIST 388 · Slavery in World History8

History

The course will examine a range of instances of slavery, including in ancient and medieval Europe, in medieval and modern South Asia, in Africa, the Caribbean world, and in North and South America. The emphasis will be on historicizing…

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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
University of Arizona · Historybias_left_share5.0—241—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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